USDA Thursday confirmed that the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) since 2017 had been confirmed in a commercial turkey operation in South Carolina.
The situation prompted several adjustments to U.S. export markets, with only the European Union (EU) and some other smaller customers for U.S. poultry deploying blanket bans on all U.S. poultry. The EU one is somewhat surprising in that during the 2015 HPAI outbreak in the U.S., the EU deployed more-targeted restrictions.
Most U.S. poultry importing countries have blocked imports from the area immediately surrounding the detected case, from the county involved or all of South Carolina.
China and South Korea have not deployed blanket bans on U.S. poultry in the wake of the find of the H7N3 HPAI find.
The phase-one agreement with China called on the two sides to agree to a regionalization of poultry issues – that any trade bans in the event of something like bird flu could not be nationwide bans.
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