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A shopper picks up eggs at a grocery store in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. With bird flu killing millions of egg-laying chickens, prices surged more than 15% in January from a month earlier, the biggest advance since 2015, and 55% from a year before, according to a US Bureau of Labor Statistics report on Wednesday. Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg U.S. President Donald Trump was poised to impose 25 per cent taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico Tuesday and to double to 20 per cent his levies on Chinese products. All three countries — America’s top trading...