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

The Trump administration plans to import eggs from Turkey and South Korea and negotiate with other countries, hoping to ease the high prices of all time for the US consumer, employees have confirmed.

“We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for a short term,” Brooke Rollins secretary told reporters in the White House.

Following is the administration of the 1 billion dollar plan (£ 792 million) to combat a bird flu epidemic that forced US farmers to collect tens of millions of chickens.

Despite the promise of President Trump’s campaign to reduce prices, the price of eggs has increased over 65% in the last year and this is Is supposed to grow by 41% In 2025

Rollins said her department also negotiates with other countries to provide new deliveries, but did not specify which regions.

“When our chicken populations are overcrowded and we again have a full egg laying industry, we hope in a few months, then move back to our inner egg layers and move those eggs to the shelf,” she said.

The Polish and Lithuanian poultry associations said they were also reversed by the US embassies on Friday about the possible export of eggs, AFP reported.

“Back in February, the US Embassy in Warsaw asked our organization if Poland would be interested in egg exporting to the US market,” Qathazina Gauranski, director of the National Poultry and Food producers, told the news agency.

In February, the US Department of Agriculture presented a five -point plan for $ 1 billion to deal with the price of eggs, with a $ 500 million budget for biosecurity measures, approximately $ 100 million to investigate and develop the vaccine and $ 400 million for farmer financial programs.

The Trump administration has said it will provide free of charge commercial egg and consulting service farms and pay up to 75% of the cost of dealing with vulnerabilities to help prevent bird flu.

“Our plan was to invest a considerable amount of money to make audits across the country to get the USDA to help these egg laying companies secure their barns,” Rollins said. “… And since we started doing this most recently, we observed a significant decline in bird flu.”

Although bird flu, or H5N1, it has spread to American poultry breeding for years, a hearth, beginning in 2022.

Egg prices have become a rally for Trump in last year’s president, as he seeks to take advantage of the dissatisfaction of voters with the increasing price of basic objects.

During his address to the United States Congress earlier this month, he blamed the raising egg prices of his predecessor Joe Biden.

“Joe Biden especially left the price of the eggs to go out of control – and we are working hard to bring it back,” he added.

Egg prices have increased as the Biden administration directed millions of birds laying eggs to be killed last year against the background of the influenza influenza, although prices continue to increase during the early stages of Trump’s second Presidency.