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United States imports eggs from Korea, Turkey to help ease prices
The cost of eggs has skyrocketed due to multiple bird flu outbreaks in the United States, forcing farmers to cull at least 30 million birds and sharply constraining supply.
A vendor holds eggs at a weekly street market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 8, 2021. / REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
The United States is importing Turkish and South Korean eggs to ease an avian flu-fueled supply crunch that has pushed up prices across the country, Donald Trump's agriculture secretary confirmed on March 21.
Brooke Rollins told reporters in Washington that imports from Turkey and South Korea had already begun and that the White House was also in talks with other countries about temporarily importing their eggs.
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