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Global business operations present companies with specific challenges, and Maria supports her clients as they navigate the complicated world of international trade law and intertwined disciplines such as trade remedies, customs law, and the WTO law. Maria has a particular focus on trade defense instruments and extensive experience dealing with anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard investigations in the EU, the Eurasian Economic Union, and other jurisdictions worldwide. Maria helps her clients to choose the very best strategy from both a legal and business point of view by analyzing and auditing sales, financial, and cost accounting data.

On February 10, 2025, President Trump signed a new Proclamation abolishing as of March 12, 2025 the quota system for the EU and imposing 25% tariffs on all steel products imported into the U.S.. This effectively puts the end to current agreement between the U.S. and the EU which kept the tariffs on steel and