In a scramble for eggs, the United States has started importing from S. Korea; plans to import “hundreds of millions of eggs”
After Poland, Finland, and Denmark refused to export eggs to the United States, the Trump administration has turned to South Korea and Turkey.
According to the Economic Times, this is the first time in history that South Korea has exported eggs to the U.S., and they’ve already shipped 20 tons of eggs to Georgia.
“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,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke 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,” Rollins 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.”
🇰🇷 Make America Great Again, right? One Korean egg at a time.
