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 (Nov 5, 2024)

• Raw Beef

Australia (Nov 18, 2024)

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

Austria (July 19, 2023)

• Processed Pork

Brazil (Nov 19, 2024)

• Raw and Processed Beef
• Raw and Processed Pork

Canada (Dec 4, 2024)

• Raw and Processed Beef
• Raw and Processed Veal
• Raw and Processed Chicken
• Raw and Processed Goat
• Raw and Processed Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
• 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) (May 9, 2024)

• Egg Products

Chile (May 24, 2024)

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

China, People's Republic of (May 10, 2024)

• Raw Siluriformes
• Processed Chicken
• Processed Duck

Costa Rica (May 23, 2024)

• Raw Beef

Croatia (July 8, 2023)

• Processed Beef
• Processed Pork

Denmark (July 15, 2024)

• Raw and Processed Pork

Dominican Republic (Feb 21, 2024)

• Raw Beef

England (See United Kingdom)

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

Finland (Sep 5, 2024)

• Raw Pork

France (Feb 12, 2024)

• Raw Veal
• Raw and Processed Pork

Germany (Aug 12, 2024)

• Processed Pork

Honduras (May 20, 2024)

• Raw Beef

Hungary (May 20, 2024)

• Raw and Processed Pork

Iceland (July 11 2024)

• Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)

Ireland (May 20, 2024)

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

Israel (Jun 03, 2024)

• Processed Chicken
• Processed Turkey

Italy (Dec 5, 2024)

• Raw and Processed Pork

Japan (August 27, 2024)

• Raw Beef

Lithuania (May 22, 2023)

• Processed Beef
• Processed Pork

Lithuania (Egg Products) (May 22, 2023)

• Egg Products

Mexico¹ (Dec 2, 2024)

• 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 (May 22, 2024)

• Raw Beef

Netherlands (Nov 4, 2024)

• Raw Veal
• Raw and Processed Pork

Netherlands (Egg Products) (Apr 13, 2023)

• Egg Products

New Zealand (Dec 2, 2024)

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

Nicaragua (Feb 8, 2024)

• Raw Beef

Northern Ireland (See United Kingdom)

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

Paraguay (July 18, 2024)

• Raw Beef

Poland (Nov 5, 2024)

• 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 (May 22, 2024)

• Processed Chicken
• Processed Duck

Romania (Oct 2, 2024)

• Processed Pork

San Marino (Oct 18, 2024)

• Processed Pork

Scotland (See United Kingdom)

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

Spain (Oct 18, 2024)

• Raw and Processed Pork

Thailand (May 20, 2024)

• Raw Siluriformes

United Kingdom² (Dec 4, 2024)

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

Uruguay (July 1, 2024)

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

Vietnam (June 27, 2024)

• 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.