Band 6+: 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. You should write at least 150 words.

The given tables represent data on sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas from 1999 to 2004 in five distinct European countries.

Overall, it is clear that the sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee was the highest demand in the UK, and the lowest in the Sweden throughout the period, while the figure for bananas sales showed the highest in the Switzerland, and the lowest in the Sweden during the time.

The sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee in UK stood at 1.5 million euro in 1999, which increased dramatically to 20 million euro in 2004, whereas the figure for the Sweden and Denmark rose slightly by 0.2 million euro in both countries between 1999 and 2004. However, the period between 1999 and 2004 witnessed a considerable growth in the Switzerland and Belgium to 6 million euro and 1.7 million euro respectively.

On the other hand, the sales of Fairtrade-labelled bananas in the Switzerland surged enormously from 15 million euro in 1999 to 47 million euro in 2004. Similarly, the UK and Belgium underwent a significant increase from 1 million euro to 5.5 million euro, and from 0.6 million euro to 4 million euro respectively during the period of 5 years. In contrast, there was a minimal drop in the Sweden and Denmark to 1 million euro and 0.9 million euro over the period.