The latest figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) showed the value of total egg exports increased over the first seven months of this year. The value of all egg exports (table eggs plus egg products in shell egg equivalent) rose 13% to $144.2 million.  During the same period, volume decreased 5% 136.1 million dozen.

According to the American Egg Board (AEB), Cumulative table egg exports for the first seven months of 2018 showed the value of table egg exports through July of this year increased 18.7%, totaling $75.2 million, while volume decreased 4.7% (63.3 million dozen.) For this period, the top six export markets for table eggs capturing 90.3% of the volume were Hong Kong, Canada, Mexico, the U.A.E., Israel, and Bahamas, AEB reported.

Looking at July alone, table egg export value dipped 3.4% ($8.8 million) as did export volume, which was down (17.4% to 8.8 million dozen) compared to July 2017. AEB said table egg export bright spots included Canada, at 3.3 million dozen, up 125.6% year over year, along with notable increases in exports to Bahamas, Brazil and Israel. Markets with export declines included Hong Kong, Mexico, the U.A.E., Jamaica, Bahrain, Oman, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Cumulative egg products exports sagged during the first seven months of 2018, down 23.3% to 19,120 tons from 2017. Despite the decline in volume, AEB reported that value rose 7.4%, reaching $69 million. More than 80% of egg product exports sales went to the top six markets – Canada, Japan, Mexico, EU-28, South Korea, and the Philippines.

USDA data showed that egg product exports in July decreased 28.1% (2,339 metric tons) compared to a year ago, as value slid 6.1% to $8.1 million.  AEB said bright spots in egg product exports included Mexico, where sales were up 30.6% to $1.2 million, and in the EU-28, the Philippines, Peru, Chile, and Singapore, where they also saw significant increases.