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In Number 10 and Number 11 there is an acknowledgement that the costs of energy for industry can be crippling.

"The benefits changes are going to be crippling," the GP said.

In the 1980s, he was alarmed at the rise of Japan as an economic superpower, arguing that America’s trade deficit with Japan was problematic and that the U.S. should respond with crippling tariffs.

“I had crippling anxiety when I was as a kid,” she says.

China has called for the world to unite against Trump's tariffs as the country's exporters reel from crippling new US levies that have risen to 104%.