Countries listed in the table below are eligible to export meat, poultry, or egg products to the United States. Select a country from the table below for a detailed listing of the foreign establishments certified as eligible to export meat, poultry, or egg products to the United States.

A certified establishment is an establishment that the country’s central competent authority (CCA) certifies as meeting the requirements of the inspection system that that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) determined equivalent to the United States inspection system and, therefore, eligible to export meat, poultry, or egg products to the United States.

For the purposes of this webpage, the term “processed” refers to raw meat or poultry products that have been modified through an additional processing step. Methods of processing meat and poultry products include, but are not limited to, cooking, salting, curing, aging, fermentation, and smoking. Simple mechanical processes (sometimes referred to as further processing) such as cutting, grinding, or mixing of raw meat and poultry products are not included in this definition.

• Raw meat and poultry products may be produced and certified under the following FSIS Process Categories:
  • Raw Product - Non-Intact and
  • Raw Product – Intact.
• Processed meat and poultry products may be produced and certified under the following FSIS Process Categories:
  • Thermally Processed - Commercially Sterile,
  • Not Heat Treated - Shelf Stable,
  • Heat Treated - Shelf Stable,
  • Fully Cooked - Not Shelf Stable,
  • Heat Treated - Not Fully Cooked - Not Shelf Stable, and
  • Products with Secondary Inhibitors - Not Shelf Stable.

The term "egg products" refers to eggs that are removed from their shells for processing. The processing of egg products includes breaking eggs, filtering, mixing, stabilizing, blending, pasteurizing, cooling, freezing, drying, and packaging.

Argentina (Dec 28, 2022)

• Raw Beef

Australia (Feb 2, 2023)

• Raw and Processed Beef
• Raw and Processed Veal
• Raw and Processed Goat
• Raw and Processed Sheep
  (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw Ostrich

Austria (Aug 8, 2022)

• Processed Pork

Brazil (Jan 13, 2023)

• Raw and Processed Beef
• Raw and Processed Pork

Canada (Feb 7, 2023)

• Raw and Processed Beef
• Raw and Processed Veal
• Raw and Processed Chicken
• Raw and Processed Goat
• Raw and Processed Sheep (Lamb)
• Raw and Processed Pork
• Raw and Processed Duck

• Raw and Processed Goose

• Raw and Processed Guinea

• Raw and Processed Squab

• Raw and Processed Emu

• Raw and Processed Ostrich

• Raw and Processed Rhea

• Raw and Processed Turkey

Canada (Egg Products) (August 25, 2022)

• Egg Products

Chile (Nov 21, 2022)

• Raw Beef
• Raw and Processed Chicken
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw Pork
• Raw and Processed Turkey

Costa Rica (May 13, 2022)

• Raw Beef

Croatia (June 27, 2022)

• Processed Beef
• Processed Pork

Denmark (Nov 22, 2022)

• Raw and Processed Pork

Dominican Republic (August 16, 2022)

• Raw Beef

England (See United Kingdom)

• Raw Beef
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw Pork

Finland (May 19, 2022)

• Raw Pork

France (June 1, 2022)

• Raw Veal
• Raw and Processed Pork

Germany (May 24, 2022)

• Processed Pork

Honduras (May 25, 2022)

• Raw Beef

Hungary (May 18, 2022)

• Raw and Processed Pork

Iceland (September 12, 2021)

• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)

Ireland (Jun 21, 2022)

• Raw Beef
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw Pork

Israel (July 20, 2022)

• Processed Chicken
• Processed Turkey

Italy (Sep 27, 2022)

• Raw and Processed Pork

Japan (June 9, 2022)

• Raw Beef

Lithuania (Sep 12, 2022)

• Processed Beef
• Processed Pork

Lithuania (Egg Products) (Oct 12, 2022)

• Egg Products

Mexico¹ (Feb 8, 2023)

• Raw and Processed Beef
• Raw and Processed Chicken
• Raw and Processed Goat
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw and Processed Pork
• Raw and Processed Turkey

Namibia (Sep 12, 2022)

• Raw Beef

Netherlands (Oct 4, 2022)

• Raw Veal
• Raw and Processed Pork

Netherlands (Egg Products) (Oct 4, 2022)

• Egg Products

New Zealand (Jun 21, 2022)

• Raw and Processed Beef
• Raw and Processed Veal
• Raw and Processed Goat
• Raw and Processed Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)

Nicaragua (Jan 10, 2023)

• Raw Beef

Northern Ireland (See United Kingdom)

• Raw Beef
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw Pork

Poland (June 28, 2022)

• Raw and Processed Chicken
• Raw and Processed Pork
• Raw and Processed Duck 
• Raw and Processed Goose
• Raw and Processed Guinea
• Raw and Processed Turkey

Republic of Korea (Jun 7, 2022)

• Processed Chicken
• Processed Duck

San Marino (Apr 21, 2022)

• Processed Pork

Scotland (See United Kingdom)

• Raw Beef
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw Pork

Spain (Oct 4, 2022)

• Raw and Processed Pork

Thailand (May 18, 2022)

• Raw Siluriformes

The People's Republic of China  (Nov 28, 2022)

• Raw Siluriformes
• Processed Chicken
• Processed Duck

United Kingdom² (Oct 27, 2022)

• Raw Beef
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw Pork

Uruguay (June 14, 2022)

• Raw and Processed Beef
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)

Vietnam (July 29, 2022)

• Raw and Processed Siluriformes

Wales (See United Kingdom)

• Raw Beef
• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• Raw Pork

1. Mexico is approved to export only processed poultry products slaughtered under Federal inspection in the United States or in a country eligible to export slaughtered poultry to the United States.
2. On March 6, 2020, FSIS combined England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales into one food safety inspection system under the United Kingdom.