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.

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.
The two tables illustrate the net transaction of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and banana in two different years between 1999 and 2004 in
UK
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the UK
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, Switzerland,
Denmark
, Belgium, and Sweden. The highest
sales
of coffee in 1999
was
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were
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in
Denmark
, reaching almost 2
million
euros
while
five years later, in 2004, UK coffee
sales
surpassed
this
record with
the
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an
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income
approximately
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of approximately
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20
million
euros
.
Denmark
and Sweden experienced a slight increase in their figures by 0.2
million
euros
over the period, starting from 1.8
million
euros
and 0.8
million
euros
, respectively, to 2
million
euros
and 1
million
euros
, respectively. One of the prominent features of the second table is that, between 1999 to 2004 there was a dramatic increase in bananas
sales
in Switzerland, skyrocketing from 15
million
euros
to 47
million
euros
.
On the contrary
, Sweden and
Denmark
declined in their bananas
sales
, dropping from 1.8
million
euros
and 2
million
euros
in 1999 to 1
million
of
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apply
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euros
and 0.9
million
euros
in 2004, respectively.
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