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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 United Kingdom was the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries, most notably during the so-called "Pax Britannica"—a period of unrivaled supremacy and unprecedented international peace during the mid-to-late 1800s.
United Kingdom–United States military relations (13 C, 34 P) United Kingdom–United States sports relations (4 C, 3 P) American expatriates in the British Empire (3 C, 11 P)
It was also strengthened its relationship with the United States as Britain's influence in Asia declined. At the governmental level, United States-Australia relations are formalized by the ANZUS treaty and the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement. [citation needed] Cook Islands: 1995: See Cook Islands–United States relations
Foreign relations of the United Kingdom by region (3 C, 1 P) Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (5 C, 45 P) United Kingdom friendship associations (1 C, 31 P)
The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [363] [371] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
Latin America–United Kingdom relations are the diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the countries of Latin America. England and Great Britain had long-standing interests in colonial Latin America , including privateering , the slave trade (and its abolition ), and founding their own colonies in the West ...
Germany was so convinced that the United States as a neutral was playing a decisive role, that it began unrestricted submarine warfare against the United States, which it knew it would lead to American entry into the war in April 1917. The United States then took over Britain's financial role, loaning large sums to Britain, France, Russia ...