The tables illustrates the trades of cocoa beans and coffee in millions of euros, in fives European nations – United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands and Switzerland, in the years 2000 and 2005.
Overall, it is clearly evident that UK gave the largest business of cocoa beans and coffee in 2000 and 2005, with coffee sales rose to more than double of what it was earlier. Whereas, Switzerland was the least distributor of caffeinated crops in both the years. However, the beverages revenue had increased for all five countries over the 5 year period.
To begin with, cocoa beans and coffee sales in UK was 13.6 and 68.3 millions of euros respectively, in 2000, but had shown a tremendous growth by 2005 with 27.3 and 137 millions of euros. Moreover, France was considered as the second largest trader of soft commodities, with less than half of the production of UK, where cocoa beans showed a modest increase from 4.6 to 9.3 and coffee marked from 32.6 to 65.2 millions of euros.
On the other hand, in 2000, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland had a commerce of cocoa beans with 2.6, 2.4 and 0.9 which substantially got doubled by 2005. In contrast, coffee production had two fold increased from 24.5, 15.2 and 7.5 in the nations over 5 years.