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The British even offered to guarantee Texas's borders with both the United States and Mexico. Texas was a tactical ally of Britain, which wanted a counterweight to the United States. Nonetheless, an independent Texas was probably inviable for financial reasons, and when the republic became a state in 1845, the legations were shut down.
In 1845 Texas was in the process of applying for an embassy in London; the United States annexed Texas before this was possible. The British never intended to open an embassy in Austin. [12] France also considered putting a consulate general in Houston. The British Empire had strong diplomatic relations with Mexico since 1824.
The British ambassador to the United States is in charge of the British Embassy, Washington, D.C., the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to the United States. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of America. The ambassador's residence is on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Britain signed a trade agreement with Texas on Wednesday, the eighth the U.K. has inked with a U.S. state in the absence of a wider free trade deal with the U.S. government. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ...
In 2015, the UK Consulate-General in Denver was reclassified as a UK Government Office. [6] In 2018 the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has announced that new High Commissions will open in Antigua and Barbuda , Bahamas , Grenada , Lesotho , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , Samoa , Swaziland , Tonga and Vanuatu and a British ...
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The United States accounts for the United Kingdom's largest single export market, buying $57 billion worth of British goods in 2007. [234] Total trade of imports and exports between the United Kingdom and the United States amounted to the sum of $107.2 billion in 2007. [235]
The ambassador is the head of the United States' consular service in the United Kingdom. As well as directing diplomatic activity in support of trade, the ambassador is ultimately responsible for visa services and for the provision of consular support to American citizens in the UK and oversees cultural relations between the two countries.