Plant Protein Protectionism In a “Europe First” move, the EU has committed to creating an “EU Protein Plan” by the end of 2018. The import substitution plan, a remake of the policy goal that sparked a major trade impairment case in the 1990s, is aimed at improving European self-sufficiency in plant protein production. If successful, it will reduce sales of these products by North and South American producers. The EU’s policies are rapidly increasing its trade surpluses in agriculture.   China Cheat China also holds the goal of reversing its import dependence on foods, although the WTO has just struck down one of its methods, which is the imposition of large safeguard duties on broiler meat imports from...