"There's more costs associated with the imports already, and now you add tariffs on top it," he said. "It makes everything more costly and makes imports that much less likely to have a major impact."
The U.S. imported more than 1.6 million dozen consumer-grade chicken eggs in January and February, mostly from Turkey, compared with none a year earlier, USDA data show.
Turkey may not be as big of a supplier going forward because of tariffs and its own outbreak of bird flu, Moscogiuri said.