Trump administration to import eggs from Turkey, South Korea
The Trump administration is importing millions of eggs from Turkey and South Korea, with other countries likely to be contributing in the coming weeks, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Friday.
"Right now, we've got Turkey and South Korea importing eggs. Just yesterday, I talked to a couple of other countries that will soon begin importing. We haven't signed that deal yet, so I don't want to say who it is," Rollins told reporters at the White House.
"We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term. So not insignificant, but significant enough to help continue to bring the prices down for right now," she continued. "And then 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."
The Trump administration has been working to rein in egg prices, which skyrocketed in recent months amid concerns about the spread of avian flu. Concerns about the virus forced farmers to slaughter millions of chickens, leading to a shortage of eggs and a spike in prices.
A projection from the Department of Agriculture published last month signaled that egg prices could increase 41 percent in 2025.
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