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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euros

and 0.9

million

euros

in 2004, respectively.