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New US President Donald Trump tariffs could relate to eggs Imported to facilitate the lack of offer, the Agriculture Minister Brooke Rollins said on Thursday, which is a move that experts in the industry said could increase prices just when they started falling from record high.
In an interview with Fox News, Rollins said that egg imports are possible, and negotiations with the affected countries are ongoing. On Wednesday, Trump announced the caring tariffs Agricultural and food groups are generally criticized for their potential for reducing the market for farmers and increasing consumer prices.
The United States has increased egg imports from Turkey, Brazil and South Korea in an attempt to increase supplies in the middle of a liquid bird flu epidemic, which was killed with nearly 170 million chickens, turkeys and other birds since 2022.
The new US basic tariff of 10% would affect imports from Turkey and Brazil, and South Korea is facing 26% tariff, According to the figures published by the White House.
If the imposes are imposed by eggs, manufacturers importing them to process into food products or should absorb the costs or transfer to consumers, said Greg Tyler, executive director of the Industrial Group Council for the export council for poultry and eggs.
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“You will see an increase in egg -priced prices here in the United States as a result,” he said.
The US Ministry of Agriculture did not immediately respond to the commentary request.
Egg prices have decreased from all the most important in recent weeks, although the wholesale price has still increased by 60% compared to that time last year at $ 3 a dozen, according to USDA data. Weaker demand and lullaby in new cases of bird flu have helped in the refrigerator prices, analysts said.
However, the Secretary of Agriculture said the tariffs would cause short -term uncertainty.
“I will not sit here and say,” Oh, everything will be perfect and the prices will go down tomorrow, “because this is an uncertain time,” Rollins told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.
The Brazilian government announced that it assessed its response to Trump’s tariffs, while South Korea ordered emergency support measures for the affected industry.
Imported eggs are mostly brought to the US on ships, transported to processing facilities, and then they are unloaded by hand, said Brian Moscogiuri, a global trade strategist for eggs of egg supplier unlimited.
“There are already more costs associated with imports, and now you add tariffs at the top,” he said. “This makes it all more expensive and makes imports so less likely to have a big impact.”
The United States introduced more than 1.6 million tens of chicken eggs in January and February, mainly from Turkey, compared to a year earlier, the USDA data show.
Turkey may not be such a large supplier who goes forward because of the tariff and his own outburst of bird flu, said Moscogiuri.
