The US Commerce Department said Tuesday that it will impose countervailing duties to offset subsidies on solar cells and panels imported from companies in India, Indonesia, and Laos.
In a fact sheet released on its website, the department listed overall subsidy rates of 125.87 per cent for imports from India, 104.38 per cent for those from Indonesia, and 80.67 per cent for products from Laos.
The three nations last year accounted for USD 4.5 billion in solar imports, about two thirds of the 2025 total, according to US government trade data.
The announcement is the first of two expected by the agency in the coming weeks in a trade case brought by a group representing a portion of the small US solar manufacturing sector.
The group, the Alliance for American Solar Manufacturing and Trade, includes South Korea’s Hanwha Qcells, Arizona-based First Solar and San Antonio-based Mission Solar, which are seeking to protect billions of dollars in investments in US factories.
(With inputs from Reuters)
