IELTS Academic Writing Task 1/ Graph Writing – Table:
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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.
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The tables provide/compare sales information on coffee and bananas with Fairtrade labels on them. These two products had been sold in five different countries in Europe in 1999 and 2004.
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The tables compare sales of two categories of products, namely: fair-trade-labelled coffee and Fairtrade-labelled bananas in five European countries in two different terms, 1999 and 2004.
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Overall, UK and Switzerland had the highest consumption of Fairtrade labelled coffee and bananas respectively. Also, these two countries showed dramatic increase too.
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As a general trend, the UK was the biggest buyer for Fairtrade labelled coffee while Switzerland showed the similar trend for bananas of this category in 2004.
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With regards to coffee sales, the highest amount of sales could be observed in Switzerland in 1999 with exactly 3 million Euro sale volume. The sale in the UK in this year was half of that and the lowest sale was recorded in Sweden with less than 1 million Euro. After 5 years, the sales of coffee in these countries increases with a remarkable improvement in the UK. The sales went up to 20 million Euros in the UK in 2004 with was almost double than the combined sales amount in the remaining four countries.
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For the banana sales, Switzerland was the largest market in both years. Sales amount in the rest of the countries summed to just over 4 million while it was 15 million alone in Switzerland. The sales upsurged significantly and went up to 47 million while it decreased in Denmark.