Tariffs Could Hit Egg Imports Meant to Lower Prices
President Donald Trump's new tariffs could apply to eggs being imported to ease a supply shortage, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Thursday, a move that industry experts said could boost prices just as they have started to decline from record highs.
Rollins said in a Fox News interview that tariffs on egg imports were possible and negotiations with affected countries were ongoing.
On Wednesday, Trump announced sweeping tariffs that have been mostly criticized by agricultural and food groups for their potential to shrink markets for farmers and raise consumer prices. The U.S. has increased imports of eggs from Turkey, Brazil, and South Korea in an attempt to increase supplies amid an ongoing bird flu outbreak that has killed nearly 170 million chickens, turkeys, and other birds since 2022.
A new U.S. baseline tariff of 10% would affect imports from Turkey and Brazil, and South Korea is facing a 26% tariff, according to figures released by the White House.
If levies are imposed on eggs, manufacturers that import them for processing into food products would either need to absorb the cost or pass it on to consumers, said Greg Tyler, CEO of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council industry group.
"You will see increases in processed egg prices here in the United States as a result," he said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Egg prices have declined in recent weeks from all-time highs, though the wholesale price is still up 60% from this time last year at $3 per dozen, according to USDA data. Weaker demand and a lull in new cases of bird flu have helped cool prices, analysts said.
The agriculture secretary, however, said tariffs would cause short-term uncertainty.
"I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Oh, everything's going to be perfect and the prices are going to come down tomorrow,' because this is an uncertain time," Rollins told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo.
The Brazilian government said it was evaluating its response to Trump's tariffs, while South Korea ordered emergency support measures for affected industries. Imported eggs are generally brought into the U.S. on ships, transported to processing facilities, and then unloaded by hand, said Brian Moscogiuri, global trade strategist for egg supplier Eggs Unlimited.
"There's more costs associated with the imports already, and now you add tariffs on top it," he said. "It makes everything more costly and makes imports that much less likely to have a major impact."
The U.S. imported more than 1.6 million dozen consumer-grade chicken eggs in January and February, mostly from Turkey, compared with none a year earlier, USDA data show.
Turkey may not be as big of a supplier going forward because of tariffs and its own outbreak of bird flu, Moscogiuri said.
He would also run the main program for income-based government-subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Collectively these programs provide coverage for almost 172 million people, government data shows.
He could be tasked with overseeing significant cuts to Medicaid as Republicans say they hope to cut federal spending in the program. Republicans in the House of Representatives demand $880 billion in Medicaid savings, which they argue could be achieved by rooting out fraud and abuse. Democrats argue it will result in benefit cuts.
Oz, 64, gained national prominence as a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality, hosting "The Dr. Oz Show" for over a decade.
"He didn't even get a chance to step out of the vehicle before he was struck," Emanuel Miranda, Newark's director of public safety, told a Saturday morning news conference with Newark's mayor and top prosecutor.
The ranking Democrat on the panel's Health subcommittee, Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, said in a statement on Thursday that "a briefing is the bare minimum that Secretary Kennedy can offer."
She added, "Instead, he would reportedly send staff rather than do it himself. While a staff briefing is better than nothing, it has not been scheduled, and there is no assurance that it will be bipartisan."
A spokesperson for Guthrie said in a statement that Democrats were "politicizing oversight efforts" and denied that they were not informed of the meeting.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a public hearing on the layoffs, according to Endpoints News.
The organization's website conveys its policy in part as "athletes will be permitted to participate in USA Fencing sanctioned events in a manner consistent with their gender identity/expression, regardless of the gender associated with the sex they were assigned at birth."
The organization's policy runs contrary to the Feb. 5 executive order from President Donald Trump titled "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports." The order the president initiated is designed to "protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports."
They pointed out that the division helped discover that applesauce pouches popular with children were contaminated with lead and noted that it had staff who would have been able to help respond in the event of a nuclear attack.
“Within this division, we house all the experts who do things like chemical, radiological or nuclear response activities,” the person said. “So, for example, if there were a nuclear detonation within the United States, or a dirty bomb, our division would be the one who would lead that response. Those people were targeted as well. There are no survivors.”
The division may still have contractors, they said, but there are no employees left for them to work with.
But an internal email from National Center for Environmental Health Director Ari Bernstein, obtained by Politico’s E&E News, shows that the division had “been slated to be eliminated in its entirety.”
The center’s former director, Patrick Breysse, predicted the layoffs would have long-term repercussions.
“There was just the wholesale elimination of the division that eliminates, essentially, the program that protects children from lead, from air pollution and asthma, from emergencies like fires,” Breysse told The Hill.
“People are going to suffer from this for decades,” he added.
The DEHSP firings come amid a wave of cuts at the CDC and its overarching Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Newsmax reached out to HHS for comment but did not receive an immediate response.
As part of the Trump administration’s effort to shrink the size of the federal government, the department is also looking to shed approximately 10,000 additional employees.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has maintained that the cuts are a necessary part of his plan to “make America healthy again,” but critics say the nation’s health will suffer as a result.
“This is not the way we make America healthy again,” National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences former Director Linda Birnbaum told The Hill. “This is how we make America sick again.”
Tariffs Could Hit Egg Imports Meant to Lower Prices
President Donald Trump's new tariffs could apply to eggs being imported to ease a supply shortage, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Thursday, a move that industry experts said could boost prices just as they have started to decline from record highs.
Rollins said in a Fox News interview that tariffs on egg imports were possible and negotiations with affected countries were ongoing.
On Wednesday, Trump announced sweeping tariffs that have been mostly criticized by agricultural and food groups for their potential to shrink markets for farmers and raise consumer prices. The U.S. has increased imports of eggs from Turkey, Brazil, and South Korea in an attempt to increase supplies amid an ongoing bird flu outbreak that has killed nearly 170 million chickens, turkeys, and other birds since 2022.
A new U.S. baseline tariff of 10% would affect imports from Turkey and Brazil, and South Korea is facing a 26% tariff, according to figures released by the White House.
If levies are imposed on eggs, manufacturers that import them for processing into food products would either need to absorb the cost or pass it on to consumers, said Greg Tyler, CEO of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council industry group.
"You will see increases in processed egg prices here in the United States as a result," he said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Egg prices have declined in recent weeks from all-time highs, though the wholesale price is still up 60% from this time last year at $3 per dozen, according to USDA data. Weaker demand and a lull in new cases of bird flu have helped cool prices, analysts said.
The agriculture secretary, however, said tariffs would cause short-term uncertainty.
"I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Oh, everything's going to be perfect and the prices are going to come down tomorrow,' because this is an uncertain time," Rollins told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo.
The Brazilian government said it was evaluating its response to Trump's tariffs, while South Korea ordered emergency support measures for affected industries. Imported eggs are generally brought into the U.S. on ships, transported to processing facilities, and then unloaded by hand, said Brian Moscogiuri, global trade strategist for egg supplier Eggs Unlimited.
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"There's more costs associated with the imports already, and now you add tariffs on top it," he said. "It makes everything more costly and makes imports that much less likely to have a major impact."
The U.S. imported more than 1.6 million dozen consumer-grade chicken eggs in January and February, mostly from Turkey, compared with none a year earlier, USDA data show.
Turkey may not be as big of a supplier going forward because of tariffs and its own outbreak of bird flu, Moscogiuri said.
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He would also run the main program for income-based government-subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Collectively these programs provide coverage for almost 172 million people, government data shows.
He could be tasked with overseeing significant cuts to Medicaid as Republicans say they hope to cut federal spending in the program. Republicans in the House of Representatives demand $880 billion in Medicaid savings, which they argue could be achieved by rooting out fraud and abuse. Democrats argue it will result in benefit cuts.
Oz, 64, gained national prominence as a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality, hosting "The Dr. Oz Show" for over a decade.
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"He didn't even get a chance to step out of the vehicle before he was struck," Emanuel Miranda, Newark's director of public safety, told a Saturday morning news conference with Newark's mayor and top prosecutor.
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The ranking Democrat on the panel's Health subcommittee, Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, said in a statement on Thursday that "a briefing is the bare minimum that Secretary Kennedy can offer."
She added, "Instead, he would reportedly send staff rather than do it himself. While a staff briefing is better than nothing, it has not been scheduled, and there is no assurance that it will be bipartisan."
A spokesperson for Guthrie said in a statement that Democrats were "politicizing oversight efforts" and denied that they were not informed of the meeting.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a public hearing on the layoffs, according to Endpoints News.
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The organization's website conveys its policy in part as "athletes will be permitted to participate in USA Fencing sanctioned events in a manner consistent with their gender identity/expression, regardless of the gender associated with the sex they were assigned at birth."
The organization's policy runs contrary to the Feb. 5 executive order from President Donald Trump titled "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports." The order the president initiated is designed to "protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports."
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They pointed out that the division helped discover that applesauce pouches popular with children were contaminated with lead and noted that it had staff who would have been able to help respond in the event of a nuclear attack.
“Within this division, we house all the experts who do things like chemical, radiological or nuclear response activities,” the person said. “So, for example, if there were a nuclear detonation within the United States, or a dirty bomb, our division would be the one who would lead that response. Those people were targeted as well. There are no survivors.”
The division may still have contractors, they said, but there are no employees left for them to work with.
But an internal email from National Center for Environmental Health Director Ari Bernstein, obtained by Politico’s E&E News, shows that the division had “been slated to be eliminated in its entirety.”
The center’s former director, Patrick Breysse, predicted the layoffs would have long-term repercussions.
“There was just the wholesale elimination of the division that eliminates, essentially, the program that protects children from lead, from air pollution and asthma, from emergencies like fires,” Breysse told The Hill.
“People are going to suffer from this for decades,” he added.
The DEHSP firings come amid a wave of cuts at the CDC and its overarching Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Newsmax reached out to HHS for comment but did not receive an immediate response.
As part of the Trump administration’s effort to shrink the size of the federal government, the department is also looking to shed approximately 10,000 additional employees.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has maintained that the cuts are a necessary part of his plan to “make America healthy again,” but critics say the nation’s health will suffer as a result.
“This is not the way we make America healthy again,” National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences former Director Linda Birnbaum told The Hill. “This is how we make America sick again.”
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