In the month of June 2019, the most important news development in India’s renewable industry came from the United States with President Trump ending India’s designation as a beneficiary developing country. This, in turn, has ended the duty-free status of about 2,000 products amounting to approximately $6 billion, including solar cells and modules. The United States Trade Representative (USTR) exempted bifacial and a few other types of solar panels from the levy of newly-imposed safeguard duty of 25%.