More egg products on the border than Fentanyl have been confiscated since the beginning of this year

US border brokers have made more seizures of eggs and egg base than fentanyl since the beginning of this year, as official statistics show.

According to the data published by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), officials made 134 Interceptions of the Deadly Drug in January and February 2025, compared to the previous year.

However, this was nothing compared to the 3,254 eggs for the same period-more than twice as many as the same two months in 2024.

The numbers that were reported for the first time by the Canadian Business News website The Logic only follow the number of “confiscation events” for any kind of smuggling and not the actual amount. The latter comparison is not possible, since CBP only releases the weight of the medication you have confiscated, not the weight of agricultural products.

Nevertheless, it shows the growing extent of the egg smuggling, since the prices of an average of 8.05 US dollars per dozen due to flu exit from bird flu and supposedly inexpensive through the highly concentrated poultry industry.

It also undermines the reason for Donald Trump's trade war against Mexico and Canada, from which he claims that he is necessary to prevent fentanyl's flooding into the United States, which, however, say that the opponents will increase the price for everyday products. (Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reported that less than 1 percent of the fentanyl fentanyl from Canada, which are intercepted at the US border, comes from.)

A CBP spokesman told Newsweek That the increase in “eggs” in the entrance ports in the five months, which ended in February, had increased by 36 percent.

Since then, prices have dropped from their climax since then, apparently because the inflation -tired consumers are not willing to shed out on such high tags.