The table below gives information about the amount of beef exported in five different countries in 2012, 2014 and 2016. Summerise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table depicts the total

beef

production supplied by five nations, including

Japan

, Switzerland,

Brazil

Norway, and Uruguay between 2012 and 2016. In general,

Brazil

and

Japan

tended to accelerate the process of producing meat to transport abroad over the period shown,

while

the remaining countries had an opposite or stable trend. Notably,

Japan

's

beef

exports grew in leaps and bounds during the same time. Between 2012 and 2016,

Brazil

and

Japan

underwent an uptrend in exporting

beef

.

Whereas

Brazil

only experienced a slight change, rising from 125,465 to 137,650

tonnes

,

Japan

witnessed an exponential increase in the volume of

beef

exports, with the figure fluctuating between 225 and 1005

tonnes

.

Due to

this

,

Brazil

was the leading

beef

exporter, and

Japan

was a new emerging meat provider in the market.

On the contrary

,

although

Uruguay was the second-largest

beef

exporter, there was no relative change from 2012 to 2016, with the volume varying about 43,000

tonnes

.

Similarly

, the amount of

beef

supplied by Switzerland was relatively stable, at approximately 22

tonnes

during the same period. Noticeably, Norway's meat export amount changed considerably. In 2012, the

beef

export volume was relatively low, only 34

tonnes

.

However

,

this

number increased almost threefold over the following two years before hitting the bottom in 2016, decreasing to only 17

tonnes

.