The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided tables depict the international trade of 2 categories in 5 certain nations in Europe in 1999 and 2004, measured in millions of euros.

overall

, it can be observed that all 5 given nations witnessed an upswing in the

number

of

sales

of fair trade-labelled coffee and bananas, except for Belgium and Sweden, where

sales

of bananas experienced a drop.

Additionally

, the UK had consistently been on the most

sales

over the period. With regards to the coffee

sales

in the UK, starting at 1.5M, lower 2 times than Switzerland,

however

,

this

was seen a dramatic growth to literally 20M by the year 2004, outnumbering the other 4 areas.

Similarly

, in Switzerland, the budget rose from 3M in 1999 to 6M in 2004,

while

the three remaining countries saw an increase in

number

, the statistics of these nations recorded a slight shift to just below 2M in 2000, compared to the initial data In terms of banana

sales

, once again, the UK experienced a surge to 47M in 2004, just tripling its

sales

in 1999.

This

was followed by Switzerland and Denmark, where banana

sales

moderately rose from 1M and 0.6M in 1999 to 5.5M and 4M in 2004, respectively.

Nevertheless

, Belgium and Sweden saw a downward trend, commencing with roughly 2M in 1999,

this

number

dropped to approximately 1M

at the end

of the period.downward trend, commencing with roughly 2M in 1999,

this

number

dropped to approximately 1M

at the end

of the period.