US Reaches Regionalization Agreement with South Korea on Bird Flu

The U.S. and South Korea have worked out an agreement that is aimed at tempering trade impacts if the U.S. finds another case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).The agreement reached between the two countries would set in place a regionalization system that would allow trade restrictions at the state level should the U.S. detect HPAI in the future. That would temper the trade impacts in the event of another U.S. HPAI find.When the U.S. found HPAI in 2015, South Korea cut off imports of all U.S. poultry, poultry products and eggs, with the agreement aimed at preventing that type of response in the future.