United States President Donald Trump's poll numbers are bleak. But, no matter the outcome in November, on at least one issue, his side can declare victory: The era of free trade, already on the wane, is officially over.
It has been replaced by a new "America first" industrial policy, which even Mr Trump's Democratic opponent, former vice-president Joe Biden, has now embraced.
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