US Imposes 104 Per Cent Duties on Indonesian Solar Panels

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The United States government has announced the imposition of temporary countervailing duties on cells and solar panels imported from Indonesia, India, and Laos.

Quoting Reuters, Thursday (26/2/2026), the policy was taken in response to alleged subsidies received by the solar panel industry in the three countries.

Washington believes that the subsidies make products from the US uncompetitive in the domestic market.

This is the latest policy from the US, part of a series of import tariffs that have been in effect for more than a decade on imports of inexpensive solar panels from Asia, mostly produced by Chinese companies.

US government trade data shows that imports of solar panels from the three countries reached $4.5 billion last year, or about two-thirds of total US solar panel imports in 2025.

In addition, the US government has also set individual tariffs for a number of companies.

From Indonesia, PT Blue Sky Solar is subject to a tariff of 143.3 per cent and PT REC Solar Energy 85.99 per cent.

Mundra Solar in India is subject to a tariff of 125.87 per cent.

Meanwhile, Solarspace Technology Sole Co and Vietnam Sunergy Joint Stock Company in Laos are subject to tariffs of 80.67 per cent and 80.67 per cent respectively.

This adds to the long list of US disruptions to global solar panel trade.

Previously, imports from Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia also fell after being subject to high tariffs in a similar case decided last year.

This announcement is the first of two decisions expected to be released in the coming weeks in a trade case filed last year by an alliance of US solar panel manufacturers.

The US Department of Commerce is scheduled to announce a separate decision next month to determine whether companies from the three countries are selling products in the US market at prices below their cost of production (dumping).

The issue originated from a lawsuit filed by a group of domestic industries, namely the Alliance for American Solar Manufacturing and Trade.