Python xlwt cell overwrite in a for loop

I have a list with all country names in the world and generated fuzzy names which I appended into the list with countries. An example with two countries could be:

"USA", "CHINA", "#USA", "U#SA", "US#A", "USA#", "#CHINA"

etc... This is done for every country, hence the fuzzy list has length = 7648.

I also have a list with sentences (transaction information), and I want to check the country of origin, but it might be disturbed by # hence why it was introduced.

In excel, I must print the first column with the transaction information and the second column with the country extracted - however, it seems like I am overwriting the cells. Any suggestions for what is wrong? Transaction country should be unique. If no country is found, it enters "N/A".

for i in range(len(transactions)):
    ws.write(i, 0, transactions[i])                   #Paste transaction data into column 0

for country in fuzzy_countries[i]:
    for i in range(len(transactions)):
        if country in transactions[i]:
            ws.write(i,1, country.replace("#",""))    #Removes the "#" pastes country into column 1
    else:
        ws.write(i,1, "N/A")

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks.