US voters are about to learn all about imported food and very fast, too. Freshly re-elected president Donald Trump is preparing a storm in international trade. US consumers are already facing eye watering price increases for domestically produced eggs, with the sector losing millions of laying hens to avian flu. A 2% drop in total shell egg inventories would not cause a flicker on the markets, but in the context of an imminent trade war, it conceals a 9.8% fall in shell egg availability in South Central region and a 5.2% decline in the Northeast. Food manufacturers and consumers face the prospect of competing for the same stocks.
However, the Take into account that two thirds of fresh produce sold in the US comes from Mexico
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