Old and new Campy 10 speed compatibility

If they had built the factory in asia they'd have the market flooded with fake campag gear within months, so i can certainly see the logic of keeping the factory closer to home.

I think that's also the official reason I've heard. I don't know about fakes, but I've certainly seen what-appears-t-be grey-market (non-Campag) stuff on places like ebay - new parts indistinguishable from the original but sold so cheap that you can't help but suspect that some of the sub-contractor in Taiwan are making them outside of contracts and off-loading them directly on the internet.

But is it such a big problem though? SRAM doesn't seem to mind, and they make all their stuff in Taiwan?