According to a fact sheet posted on the Commerce Department’s website, the agency calculated general subsidy rates of 125.87 per cent for imports from India, 104.38 per cent for imports from Indonesia, and 80.67 per cent for imports from Laos, news agency Reuters reported.
With the decision, U.S. trade officials sided with domestic solar factory owners in finding that companies operating in the three countries received government subsidies that make American products uncompetitive, the report noted.
The three nations last year accounted for $4.5 billion in solar imports, about two-thirds of the 2025 total, according to government trade data. U.S. tariffs have a track record of disrupting global solar trade, Reuters report said.
The Commerce Department is set to make a separate decision next month on whether companies from the three nations flooded the U.S. market at prices below their cost of production, it added.
