>>50110215America has very loose regulations on food standards. It's actually legal there for an American company to gather up all of the loose bits of cheese, compress them and label it as authentic Italian Parmigiano, no, really.
It's like a country based around Chinese ripoffs. So naturally Mr and Mrs yank will buy the cheap ripoff first as its labelled falsely as being the real thing, they will notice how inferior it is and then not bother ever trying the real stuff, especially not after looking at how much the real stuff costs.