Charge Scissor

Charge are owned by one of the American bicycles companys I think. Giant springs to mind. If its so it makes sense. Plus the US is also closer to the factory. If you ship from Taiwan to the states and to the UK by sea guess who gets the frames alot sooner?

I think your right about the American ownership but i think it's more likely to be the group that owns GT, Mongoose, Electra etc as CSG also deal with all them.
Think Merida might be the parent company?