NAFTA AGRICULTURE FACT SHEET:
Eggs

TREATMENT OF TARIFFS:

• Upon enactment of the NAFTA, the United States immediately eliminated the tariff of 3.5 cents per dozen on table and fertilized eggs imported from Mexico.

TREATMENT OF QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS:

• When the NAFTA went into effect, Mexico converted its import licensing regime for table and fertilized eggs imported from the United States to a transitional tariff-rate quota (TRQ). The TRQ will be in effect for 10 years.
• For the United States, the initial duty-free quota to the Mexican market was 6,500 metric tons of eggs (equivalent to about 9.6 million dozen), which grows at a 3-percent compounded annual rate over the 10-year transition period. For 1998 the quota is 6,883.
• Any U.S. exports to Mexico in excess of the quota amount can be assessed a tariff, initially equal to 50 percent. Over the first 6 years of the agreement, an aggregate 24 percent of this over-quota tariff is being eliminated; the remainder is being phased out over the rest of the 10-year transition period. For 1998, the over-quota tariff is 40 percent.
• For Mexico-Canada trade, eggs were excluded from NAFTA trade liberalization.

 

U.S. Egg Trade with Mexico

Calendar Year	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Export Value	8,751	9,823	9,650	11,100	10,091	8,777	13,766
Export Volume	5,198	7,144	7,296	7,081	10,119	5,190	11,406
Import Value	0	0	.2	182	537	25	75
Import Volume	0	0	9	151	1,959	84	252

Value in $1,000; volume in dozens.

Last modified: Friday, November 18, 2005