The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrad-labelled coffe and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countires.

The two different tables present regarding the purchase of ethically traded produce in the years 1999 and 2004 in five nations across Europe.

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, in both years, the countries with the highest combined

sales

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of fair-trade produce were the UK and

Switzerland

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. In general,

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of fair-trade goods increased in the majority of nations. Notably, there was a slight drop in the sale of

bananas

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in

Sweden

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and Denmark between 1999 and 2004. Turning to the data more in detail, in 1999, the nations who sold the most

coffee

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were

Switzerland

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and Denmark with figures of 3 and 1.8 million euros respectively. In the same year,

Sweden

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sold only 800,000 euros of

coffee

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. 5 years later, there was a notably large increase in

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for the UK. The figure increased by over 10 times.

As a result

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, it overtook

Switzerland

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to become the leading

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seller. By

this

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time, the lowest

coffee

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sales

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continued to belong to

Sweden

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. With regard to

bananas

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, in 1999,

Switzerland

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had the most

bananas

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followed by Denmark. In 2004,

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’s

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increased by over 3 times,

whereas

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Demark’s consumer spending on

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halved.

Sweden

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showed a similar trend, where its

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went down from 1.8 to 1 million euros.