Indonesian and Indian Solar Panels Face Hundreds of Percent Tariffs from the US

Moscow (ANTARA) - US President Donald Trump has imposed import tariffs of up to hundreds of percent on solar panel products from Indonesia, India, and Laos, according to the US Department of Commerce, Wednesday (February 25th).

In a statement, the US Department of Commerce announced a temporary tariff of 125.87 percent for solar panel products from India. Countervailing duties ranging from 86 to 143 percent will be imposed on solar panels from Indonesia, and 81 percent for Laos.

The US Department of Commerce claims that solar panel products from these countries benefit from unfair government subsidies.

According to a Bloomberg report, these subsidies allow exporters from the three countries to lower prices and compete with US manufacturers.

The tariffs are intended to encourage domestic solar panel production in the United States.

However, the move also increases uncertainty for the industry and may lead to higher costs for both manufacturers and consumers, according to the Bloomberg report.

India, Indonesia, and Laos accounted for 57 percent of all solar panel imports to the US in the first half of 2025, with imports from India alone reaching $792.6 million in 2024, a nine-fold increase from the import value in 2022.

The imposition of these tariffs follows a complaint from US manufacturers, who, in a lawsuit last July, accused Chinese manufacturers of flooding the US market with cheap products produced in the three Asian countries, including Indonesia.

This triggered the US International Trade Commission to launch an anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigation.

The value of these import tariffs is not related to Trump’s global tariffs, which were overturned by the US Supreme Court last week.

Following that ruling, Trump announced a new tariff of 10 percent on all imports to the US and threatened to raise the tariff to 15 percent.

Source: Sputnik/RIA Novosti

Translator: Nabil Ihsan