Us to import eggs from Türkiye and South Korea to relieve prices

The Trump administration plans to import eggs from Türkiye and South Korea and is in conversations with other countries hoping to relieve high prices of all time for the US consumer, authorities confirmed.

“We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term,” said the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, to Journalists from the White House.

Follow the announcement of the administration of a plan of $ 1 billion (£ 792 million) to combat a furious epidemic of aviant flu that has forced US farmers to sacrifice dozens of millions of chickens.

Despite President Trump’s campaign promise to reduce prices, the cost of eggs has increased more than 65% during the past year, and it is projected to increase by 41% In 2025.

Rollins said his department was also in conversations with other countries to ensure new supplies, but did not specify what regions.

“When our chicken populations are repopulated and we have a complete egg placement industry again, hopefully in a couple of months, then we return to our layers of internal eggs and move those eggs to the shelf,” he said.

The Polish and Lithuanian poultry associations said Friday that they had also approached the United States embassies regarding possible egg exports, AFP reported.

“In February, the American embassy in Warsaw asked our organization if Poland would be interested in exporting eggs to the US market,” Katarzyna Gawronska, director of the National Popratus Chamber and Feeds producers, to the news agency, told the news agency.

In February, the United States Department of Agriculture presented a five -point plan of $ 1 billion to address the price of eggs, with a budget of $ 500 million for biosecurity measures, approximately $ 100 million for the investigation and development of vaccines, and $ 400 million for the financial relief programs of farmers.

The Trump Administration said it will provide business farms for Free Bloods and Consulting Services for free, and will pay up to 75% of the costs to address vulnerabilities to help prevent the propagation of avian flu.

“Our plan was to invest a significant amount of money to make audits throughout the country so that the USDA helps these egg placement companies to ensure their barns,” Rollins said. “… and since we started doing it more recently, we have seen a significant decrease in avian flu.”

Although the aviar flu, or H5N1, has circulated between the flocks of American poultry for years, an outbreak that begins in 2022 has wreaked havoc on the farms, killing more than 156 million birds and sending prices of shot eggs.

The prices of the eggs became a meeting point for Trump in the presidential race last year, since he sought to capitalize on the frustrations of the voters with the increase in the cost of the essential items.

During his speech before the United States Congress earlier this month, he blamed the prices of eggs to the very high of his predecessor Joe Biden.

“Joe Biden let the price of eggs get out of control, and we are working hard to lower it again,” he added.

Egg prices increased when the Biden administration directed millions of birds that lit eggs last year in the middle of an avian flu outbreak, although prices have continued to increase during the early stages of Trump’s second presidency.