Crackdown: Canadian Eggs Being Intercepted At U.S. Border Crossings

 BREAKING NEWS 

U.S. Officials Crack Down On Contraband Eggs 

Smuggled Into The U.S. From Canada, Border Officials Say 

March 19th, 2025 

Border officials are scrambling to deal with the 3,254 egg-related border seizures in January and February of 2025 at Canada-U.S. border crossings.

The eggs were coming into the U.S.. They were not destined for Canada. Canada doesn't need more eggs.  

SEE COUNTRY JOURNAL STORY ABOUT EGGS IN CANADA 

That's a doubling of the rate of egg smuggling in past years. Hard-boiled U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents say there were only 1,508 egg-smuggling events in those same months last year. 

U.S. eggs are expensive and in short supply. 

America is taking this seriously. It's not going over easy.

Most of the contraband eggs originating in Canada are making their way into the United States at the Windsor-Detroit crossing, between Ontario and Michigan. The two cities are separated by around a mile of the Detroit River, with the international border line going right down the middle of the waterway. 

Detroit is north of Windsor, which is on a peninsula, dangling down from Canada like a very wide Homer Spit. 

Site of Canadian egg-smuggling between Windsor (bottom of map) and Detroit. (Google Maps) 

The U.S. government has blamed Canadians for smuggling fentanyl over the border into the U.S., citing fentanyl as the major reason to impose punishing tariffs on Canadians. 

However, on the sunny side, fentanyl smuggling is down 32%. While "egg interceptions" are up 116%. 

The CBC – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation –  is following this story closely. 

Six eggs. (Wikipedia)