Amanda M. Countryman is an agricultural economist at Colorado State University. Her research employs computable general equilibrium modeling techniques to investigate the economic implications of international trade policy, focusing specifically on the impacts of trade reform on agriculture. She investigate issues related to the World Trade Organization as well as bilateral and multilateral trade partnerships, nontariff barriers to trade, the role of agricultural trade policy on poverty as well as trade issues related to livestock and meat sectors.

Rural America
No One Wins in a Trade War, Especially not American Farmers
Amanda M. Countryman
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