A group of importers and distributors of gray-market cigarettes are suing to overturn the $206 billion settlement between the tobacco industry and 46 states, plus a separate settlement with Texas, claiming that the agreements are effectively driving them out of business. The plaintiffs are five companies that buy wholesale cigarettes made by U.S. companies intended for export. They then sell the cigarettes in the United States, profiting from markedly lower wholesale prices outside the country.
October 19, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The latest legal shot at Big Tobacco has been fired from an unlikely source: a group of importers and distributors of so-called gray-market cigarettes.
They are suing to overturn the $206 billion settlement between the tobacco industry and 46 states, plus a separate settlement with Texas, claiming that the agreements are effectively driving them out of business.
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