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 compare the

sales

of Fairtrade-labelled

coffee

and

bananas

in the UK,

Switzerland

, Denmark,

Belgium

and

Sweden

in two different years. It can be clearly seen that an upward trend is observed for

sales

in all countries, except

Belgium

and

Sweden

whose

sales

of

bananas

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slightly.

According to

the tables, people in

Switzerland

consumed

coffee

the most, 3

million

euros

, in 1999

while

the

sales

of

bananas

was

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highest in

Switzerland

at 15

million

euros

in the same year. After 5 years, the figure for

coffee

sales

in the UK rose dramatically from 1.5

million

euros

in 1999 to 20

million

euros

which was more than

Switzerland

’s by threefold. In 2004, the

sales

of

bananas

in

Switzerland

and in the UK grew significantly by 32

million

euros

and 4.5

million

euros

respectively.

Furthermore

, the

sales

of

coffee

were lower in Denmark,

Belgium

, and

Sweden

. These countries demonstrated a slight increase to 2, 1.7 and 1

million

euros

in 2004 respectively.

This

was followed by a surge which took place in the

sales

of

bananas

in

Belgium

between 1999 and 2004.

However

, the figures accounted for a gentle decrease in the

sales

of

Bananas

in

Sweden

and Denmark to 1 and 0.9

million

euros

in 2004 respectively.