United States Division of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins mentioned she doesn’t anticipate there to be a big enhance within the worth of eggs over the following few weeks after President Donald Trump rolled out sweeping tariffs on greater than 180 nations and territories final week.
Rollins sat down with Fox Information chief political anchor Bret Baier on Tuesday for a wide-ranging interview on the potential affect of tariffs on American farmers and agriculture.
America has been importing eggs from different nations, corresponding to Turkey and Mexico, to fill the availability hole because it grapples with a devastating chicken flu outbreak and declining egg manufacturing.
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Cabinets within the egg part are largely empty at Cease n Store in Tarrytown, NY, Monday, March 3, 2025. Elements which embody Avian Flu are contributing to a nationwide egg scarcity which has led to greater costs in addition to lowered provide. (Fox Information Digital)
The USDA Agricultural Advertising Service present in a report launched final week that the general worth of U.S. egg imports was up 328% month-over-month and 450% year-over-year.
“Will these eggs be tariffed coming in from Turkey or South Korea, wherever they’re? Sure, they may, however the market in America is already adjusting,” Rollins mentioned on “Particular Report.”
“We’ve got been engaged on the egg subject, clearly, since we began a pair [of] months in the past. We launched a giant daring plan on A) how one can fight the avian flu, B) how one can decontrol underneath Biden’s loopy overregulations out of right here, out of USDA that brought about the costs to go up, even apart from the avian flu. We noticed these costs considerably decline, however whereas that is occurring, we additionally put ahead huge repopulation.”
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The agriculture secretary doubled down on the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs, arguing they’re designed to “fully realign the American economic system round placing America first.”
US President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs throughout an occasion within the Rose Backyard entitled “Make America Rich Once more” on the White Home in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
She echoed Trump’s sentiments about america being handled unfairly by its buying and selling companions, pointing to the European Union and Australia taking subject with U.S. beef imports.
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“Some nations will not take our corn. And it is not a tariff query,” Rollins defined. “It is simply an unfair commerce observe and utilizing unfair obstacles to commerce. So that is an all the above method throughout the cupboard. We’re all fingers on deck.”
