United States Division of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins mentioned she doesn’t anticipate there to be a major improve within the value of eggs over the following few weeks after President Donald Trump rolled out sweeping tariffs on greater than 180 international locations 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 impression of tariffs on American farmers and agriculture.
America has been importing eggs from different international locations, equivalent to Turkey and Mexico, to fill the availability hole because it grapples with a devastating hen flu outbreak and declining egg manufacturing.
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Cabinets within the egg part are principally empty at Cease n Store in Tarrytown, NY, Monday, March 3, 2025. Elements which embrace Avian Flu are contributing to a nationwide egg scarcity which has led to larger costs in addition to diminished 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 those eggs be tariffed coming in from Turkey or South Korea, wherever they are? Yes, they will, but the market in America is already adjusting,” Rollins mentioned on “Special Report.”
“We have been working on the egg issue, obviously, since we started a couple [of] months ago. We released a big bold plan on A) how to combat the avian flu, B) how to deregulate under Biden’s crazy overregulations out of here, out of USDA that caused the prices to go up, even aside from the avian flu. We saw those prices significantly decline, but while that’s happening, we also put forward massive repopulation.”
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The agriculture secretary doubled down on the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs, arguing they’re designed to “completely realign the American economy around putting 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 Wealthy Again” on the White Home in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Photographs)
She echoed Trump’s sentiments about the US being handled unfairly by its buying and selling companions, pointing to the European Union and Australia taking situation with U.S. beef imports.
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“Some countries won’t take our corn. And it isn’t a tariff question,” Rollins defined. “It’s just an unfair trade practice and using unfair barriers to trade. So this is an all of the above approach across the cabinet. We are all hands on deck.”
