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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.
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These tables
depicts
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 the comparison between sales of
Fairtrade labelled
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coffee
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 and bananas during
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year
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 1999 to 2004 in 5 European
countries
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. It is clear from the graph that all five
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 maintained
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increased
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 only with
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 for that period of years.
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 what is shown,
UK
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 and Switzerland
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went up rapidly by 18.5
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millions
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of
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Euros
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 and 3
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millions
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Euros
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 respectively,
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Sweden
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, Denmark and Belgium added slowly approximately 0.7
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millions
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of
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Euros
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 for Belgium and 0.2
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millions
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of
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Euros
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 for Denmark and
Sweden
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 for 5 years of sales
coffee
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. As for sales of bananas, only two
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were
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dropped
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Sweden
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 and Denmark by 0.2 and 0.1 respectively,
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 the other 3
countries
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 increased by
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 amounts
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 1999 to 2004.
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, we could say that the amount of
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 in Belgium and
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 was
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.At the same moment, the amount of bananas with them decreased for 5 years.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words coffee, countries, millions, euros, sweden with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "amounts" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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