EU-Mercosur deal threatens European egg industry

new markets, including Europe. Brazil saw a breakthrough in egg industry development in 2024 and 2025, notably expanding egg production and exports to the US, taking advantage of the turmoil in that market following a bird flu epidemic, Gawrońska recently told local press. Industry analysts have long been forecasting the growth in the Brazilian egg production and processing potential. “A few years ago, I projected that the Brazilians would follow the same path with egg production as they did with broiler meat production and would want to build the same kind of power,” Gawrońska said. Now, this scenario becomes real, heralding big problems for the European egg industry in the context of the EU-Mercosur deal, under which tariffs on Brazilian food products are due to be dramatically lowered. “This is a major long-term threat, and I expect Brazil to be very strong in the long run,” Gawrońska noted. In fact, Brazil’s poultry industry has been bracing for the opening of the European ...