🚨Burnham’s EU Reset Threatens to Price Out Nearly 90% of British Goods Exports Andy Burnham’s plan to deepen EU alignment—linking to the bloc’s carbon trading system and carbon border charges—looks set to load extra costs onto nearly 90% of UK goods exports for the sake of marginal supermarket import savings that may never reach the high street, according to trade analyst Catherine McBride in The Daily Sceptic. The sectors at risk are machinery and transport equipment (the biggest slice), chemicals, miscellaneous manufactures, fuels and basic materials. Higher carbon taxes, import tariffs on inputs and new packaging rules would make these products more expensive to produce and sell abroad. UK exports are already mostly services (around 57%), which stay largely unaffected, while goods have been shrinking for years under high domestic energy costs. The main upside she cites is slightly cheaper imports for a few supermarkets, some foreign-owned, with little clear benefit for British manufacturers or shoppers.