Result of GM

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BlackRock American Income Trust plc announced that all resolutions presented at its General Meeting were passed by shareholders on a poll. These resolutions grant the Directors authority to allot Ordinary Shares and disapply pre-emption rights, allowing for the issuance of new shares or sale from treasury up to approximately 20% of the issued Ordinary Share capital. Resolution 1, authorizing directors to allot shares, passed with 99.28% of votes for, while Resolution 3, to disapply pre-emption rights for these allotments, received 99.01% of votes in favour.

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BlackRock American Income Trust plc (the "Company")

(LEI: 549300WWOCXSC241W468)

Results of General Meeting

On 7 July 2026, the Company published a shareholder circular incorporating a notice of general meeting (the " Circular ") to convene a general meeting to allow Shareholders to consider and, if thought fit, approve shareholder authorities to allot or sell out of treasury further Ordinary Shares on a non-pre-emptive basis, up to an aggregate amount equal to approximately 20 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company (excluding Ordinary Shares held in treasury) as at close of business on 2 July 2026 (the " General Meeting ").

Following the General Meeting which was held today, the Board is pleased to announce that all resolutions put to shareholders were passed on a vote on a poll, including special resolutions 3 and 4.

Resolution	Votes For 1		Votes Against		Votes Withheld 2
Resolution	Number	% of votes cast	Number	% of votes cast	Number
Resolution 1 - To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares	10,969,608	99.28%	79,540	0.72%	81,259
Resolution 2 - To authorise the Directors to allot additional Ordinary Shares	10,955,366	99.15%	93,782	0.85%	81,259
Resolution 3 - To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of issues of new Ordinary Shares pursuant to resolution 1 above or the sale of Ordinary Shares out of treasury	10,924,028	99.01%	109,781	0.99%	96,598
Resolution 4 - to disapply pre-emption rights in respect of issues of new Ordinary Shares pursuant to resolution 2 above or the sale of Ordinary Shares out of treasury	10,901,859	98.80%	131,902	1.20%	96,646

1 Includes discretionary votes

2 A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'in favour' or 'against' a resolution.

Terms used and not defined in this announcement shall have the meanings given to them in the Circular.

Under UK Listing Rule 6.4.2 and UK Listing Rule 6.4.3, a copy of the resolutions passed at today's General Meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be made available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

24 July 2026

Enquiries

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited

Tunga Chigovanyika, Corporate Finance

020 7397 1915

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited

Charles Kilner, Director, Closed End Funds

020 7743 3000