The Trump administration is planning to import eggs from Türkiye and South Korea and is in talks with other countries in hopes of easing all-time high prices for the American consumer, officials have confirmed.
“We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters at the White House.
It follows the administration’s announcement of a $1 billion plan to combat a raging bird flu epidemic that has forced US farmers to cull tens of millions of chickens.
Despite President Trump’s campaign promise to reduce prices, the cost of eggs has surged more than 65 per cent over the past year, and it is projected to rise by 41pc in 2025.
Rollins said her department was also in talks with other countries to secure new supplies, but did not specify which regions.
“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.
Polish and Lithuanian poultry associations said they had also been approached by US embassies regarding possible egg exports.
“Back in February, the American embassy in Warsaw asked our organisation whether Poland would be interested in exporting eggs to the US market,” Katarzyna Gawronska, director of the National Chamber of Poultry and Feed Producers, said.
In February, the US Department of Agriculture unveiled a $1bn, five-point plan to tackle the price of eggs, with a budget of $500m for biosecurity measures, roughly $100m for vaccine research and development, and $400m for farmer financial relief programmes.
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