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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provide information concerning the 1999 and 2004 sales figures for coffee and bananas with Fairtrade labels in five European nations. The data can be divided into two groups, namely the numbers that experienced an upward trend and a downward trend. Figures are given in millions of Euros.

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, it can be clearly seen that the price rates in Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden experienced

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slight upsurge,

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the UK faced a dramatic

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distribution.

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with the coffee price in Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden, the two former nations remained at 3 and 1 in 1999 before

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almost double at 6 and 1.7 in 2004. The two latter nations stood at 1.8 and 0.8 in 1999,

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slightly rose around 2

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Euros to 2 and 1 respectively in 2004. Moving on to the market share of coffee in the UK, there was 1.5 in 1999 before a sharp increase to the

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table at 20 in 2004.