Agriculture secretary doesn't expect egg prices to significantly increase after Trump tariff announcement

United States Department of Agriculture USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins declared she doesn t expect there to be a key increase in the price of eggs over the next inadequate weeks after President Donald Trump rolled out sweeping tariffs on more than countries and territories last week Rollins sat down with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on Tuesday for a wide-ranging interview on the likely impact of tariffs on American farmers and agriculture The United States has been importing eggs from other countries such as Turkey and Mexico to fill the supply gap as it grapples with a devastating bird flu outbreak and declining egg production The USDA Agricultural Marketing Facility determined in a description disclosed last week that the overall value of U S egg imports was up month-over-month and year-over-year Will those eggs be tariffed coming in from Turkey or South Korea wherever they are Yes they will but the area in America is already adjusting Rollins mentioned on Special Summary We have been working on the egg issue obviously since we started a couple of months ago We disclosed 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 TRUMP SAYS US NOT WILLING TO MAKE DEAL WITH CHINA UNLESS PACT DEFICIT IS SOLVEDThe agriculture secretary doubled down on the Trump administration s sweeping tariffs arguing they are designed to wholly realign the American market around putting America first She echoed Trump s sentiments about the United States being treated unfairly by its trading partners pointing to the European Union and Australia taking issue with U S beef imports Particular countries won't take our corn And it isn't a tariff question Rollins explained It's just an unfair commerce practice and using unfair blockades to deal So this is an all of the above approach across the cabinet We are all hands on deck