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Agence France-Presse

The United States is importing South Korean eggs to ease an avian flu-fuelled supply crunch that has pushed up prices across the country.
US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters in Washington that imports from South Korea – and Turkey – had already begun and that the White House was also in talks with other countries about temporarily importing their eggs.
“We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term,” she added on Friday.
The cost of eggs has skyrocketed due to multiple bird flu outbreaks in the US, forcing farmers to cull at least 30 million birds and sharply constraining supply.
Egg prices became a rallying point for US President Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election campaign as he sought to capitalise on voters’ frustrations with the rising cost of essential items during his predecessor Joe Biden’s presidency.

After returning to office in January, Trump tasked Rollins with the job of boosting the supply of eggs, and bringing down prices.
In the weeks since, producers in several countries have reported American interest in their produce, with the Polish and Lithuanian poultry associations saying that they had been approached by US diplomatic staff on the hunt for fresh eggs.
“There is a shortage of eggs in many countries,” Katarzyna Gawronska, director of Poland’s National Chamber of Poultry and Feed Producers, said recently.
“The key question would be what financial conditions would be offered by the Americans.”


The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently noted that wholesale egg prices have fallen by almost 50 per cent since late February, which suggests that consumer prices could soon start to fall.
“The downward trend underscores the effectiveness of USDA’s approach,” the agency said in a statement.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Rollins said that the imports of eggs would stop once US poultry farmers were able to ramp up supply.
“When our chicken populations are repopulated and we’ve got a full egg laying industry going again – hopefully in a couple of months – we then shift back to our internal egg layers and moving those eggs out onto the shelf,” she said.


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The US is importing hundreds of millions of eggs from countries around the world – not just Korea – after avian flu forced a mass bird cull


The US is importing hundreds of millions of eggs from countries around the world – not just Korea – after avian flu forced a mass bird cull.
