US should reflect on its tariffs-and-egg dilemma

A US Department of Agriculture report on March 14 says national average wholesale egg prices have been "steadily declining", but on social networking sites a number of people in the United States are still complaining about the high prices of eggs in supermarkets.

Maybe it takes time for supermarkets, which buy eggs from wholesale markets, to adjust their prices for consumers. Or maybe real-time egg prices vary from place to place and it's too early to say that the egg price crisis in the US is over.

Whatever the case, the high egg prices should remind the US government that no country can alone produce enough to take care of the needs of all inhabitants on Earth. International trade remains an essential, effective way of balancing different countries' needs and products. That is like the ABC of economics and there is reason enough to believe the US leaders know it, as they have asked European countries, including Denmark, to export more eggs to the US. Yes, the same Denmark, from which the US had earlier threatened to annex Greenland.