ABSTRACT
The importance of the case goes far beyond golf carts, however. First, a new method was devised to assess dumping charges against centrally planned economies (CPEs). Second, the CPEs have serious balance-of-payments problems with the West. The possibility of producing and exporting golf carts to the United States was suggested to the Poles around 1970 by an American distributor who was dissatisfied with the domestically produced versions he was handling in the United States. The US Treasury and the Polish Government both appear to be satisfied with the methods used in both the carbon steel plate and golf cart cases. Poland relied on the price of carbon steel place produced by a Spanish company and on the constructed value of a golf cart estimated from Polish factor proportions and priced by Spanish engineers. In the golf cart case, it is methodologically relevant to use a nation that is at a comparable level of development.
