Band 5+: 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 rendered tabular chart elucidates how much coffee and bananas were sold in five distinct European regions over the given period in 1994 and 2004.The data has been calibrated in millions of euros.

Overall, it is evident from the charts that sales of products were rose in all given nations from given timeframe, unlike Sweden and Denmark, where banana sales were declined.

To embark with, in terms of coffee, in 1999, Switzerland sold the highest quantity of coffee, which accounted for 3 million Euros, this sold doubled after five years, followed by Denmark and Belgium at 1.8 million euro and 1 million Euros in 1994 before increasing to 2 million euros and 1.7 million Euros in 2004, respectively. While, Sweden experienced a mild surge by 0.2 million euros. Interestingly, UK represented a vast difference from 1.5 to 20 million euros in given period.

Moving toward bananas, switzerland stood at 15 million euros in initially, then witnessed an upward figures at 47 million of euros, which was the highest amount throughout the period. Likewise, UK and Belgium’s sales also escalated by 4.5 and 3.4 million euros, in order, from 1994 to 2004.Lastly Sweden and Denmark’s figure diminished by 0.8 million euros and 2.1 million euro, respectively.