The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. *Fairtrade: a category of products for which farmers from developing countries have been paid an officially agreed fair price. You should write at least 150 words.

The tables compare Fairtrade-labelled

coffee

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and

bananas

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sales

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(in millions of

Euros

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) across five different

countries

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in Europe for the years 1999 and 2004.

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,

sales

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data for both

coffee

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and

bananas

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indicates a growth in almost all the nations.

Sales

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of

coffee

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increased most and least in the

UK

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and Denmark, respectively,

whereas

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the rate of change in Fairtrade banana

sales

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was the highest in Denmark during

this

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time. The first table shows the highest number of

coffee

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sales

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in Switzerland, which was exactly 3

million

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Euros

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in 1999. The

sales

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in the

UK

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were half of that, and the lowest

sales

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were recorded in Sweden, with less than 1

million

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Euros

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. After five years, the

coffee

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sales

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in these five

countries

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went up with a remarkable improvement in the

UK

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. The

sales

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rose significantly to 20

million

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Euros

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in 2004 which was almost double the total

sales

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in the remaining four

countries

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. The second table displays the

sales

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of

bananas

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. In general, Switzerland had the highest income from

bananas

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in both 1994 and 2014.

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, banana

sales

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climbed in three

countries

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- the

UK

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, Switzerland, and Denmark - between the two years.

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, the

sales

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of

bananas

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in Sweden and Belgium declined in 2014 to around 1

million

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Euros

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over the period.