In the United States a package from twelve egg touched the eight dollarspushed by the resurgence ofavian influence and from the nervousness of the market. Washington has started a real diplomatic offensive to search Supplies in Europe.
Among the countries contacted also Italy, where the farms struggle to guarantee national self -sufficiency. The VenetoThe key region of the poultry sector, has received numerous stresses. However, he replied that he was unable to satisfy international requests.
Use, the blaze of egg costs and political pressure
In the United States, within a year, the card of price of eggs He made an acrobatic leap: from two to over eight dollars for a dozen. Not a speculative bubble but the result of an indigestible mix of elements:
- Aviari viruses;
- frayed logistics chains;
- agricultural policy that arranges.
President Donald Trump built us on a part of his electoral script, swearing to cut off the crisis from minute one.
Since then, the topic has never really cooled. Indeed, the political thermometer continues to score high fever. The figures tell of values never seen for decadeswhile reassuring press releases come from the White House who clashes with citizens’ receipts.
Thus, the case of the eggs has become much more than a breakfast matter: it is the emblem of one deep economic tensionwhich insinuates between empty shelves and increasingly lighter wallets.
Italy under pressure: production in trouble and requests from the USA
The American approach found few concrete shores in Europe. Most of the EU manufacturers prefers to focus on the stability of theinternal offer. In addition, there are non -negligible technical obstacles: in the United States eggs are washed before the sale, one prohibited practice in many areas of the European Union.
This detail would entail additional processes to make exports compatible with the standards requested by the American market. Italy is therefore in a delicate position: on the one hand it receives stresses from beyond Atlantic, on the other it must face an already proven internal chain.
The Venetowith an annual production that touches i 2 billion unitsrepresents one of the strongholds of the national poultice sector. In the region there are over 250 farms with more than 250 garments each. According to Confagricoltura, each Italian consumes on average 219 eggs per year, including those contained in transformed products. With these numbers, allocate part of the stocks on the American market It appears impracticable. The entire sector is in fact committed to safeguarding national self -sufficiency.
From Denmark to Türkiye, the contact map
According to what is reported by Agrwatch and Foodwatch, the Dane sector, the Department of Agriculture of the United States would have contacted several European authoritiesstarting from the end of February, then continuing in March with more detailed requests on exportable volumes. Finland has made it known that there are currently no formal agreements and that, in any case, it does not have enough production to affect American needs.
At the end of February, the USDA asked European governments to quantify how many eggs they would be willing to send overseas. Then, the silence. No answer, no update.
There Türkiye it is instead among the few countries they have replied positively At the request, starting egg shipments to the United States starting from February. According to Ibrahim Afyon, president of the central union of egg producers, the loads will continue until July for a total of 15,000 tons.
