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This week Japan Tobacco International (JTI), the world's third biggest tobacco company, joined Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco in filing a lawsuit against the Government.

There were also claims that JTI product was being smuggled from Russia into the more heavily taxed EU.

It is the second major closure in the town after tobacco company JTI Gallagher announced last year that it was closing its manufacturing site, with 800 redundancies.

JTI, one of the tobacco companies that brought the case, announced it intended to appeal, although this would not delay the introduction of plain packs.

Job losses would extend as far Nottingham where JTI has a contract with a local firm for printing its cigarette papers, Unite point out.

JTI strenuously denied any wrongdoing and all the cigarette companies are adamant they do not connive with the distributors to bypass tax regimes.

JTI-Macdonald's bankruptcy filing followed a court order granting Quebec 1.36 billion Canadian dollars in back taxes related to the scheme.

The defendants in the case include the Altria Group of Richmond, Va., and some of its Philip Morris subsidiaries, British American Tobacco of London and its Canadian unit Imperial Tobacco as well as R. J. Reynolds and JTI-Macdonald, a Japan Tobacco unit that is in bankruptcy proceedings.

In a Canadian twist, the government also charges that JTI-Macdonald, when it was owned by R. J. Reynolds, was involved in a scheme to evade Canada's high level of cigarette taxation by shipping cigarettes to an Indian reserve that straddles the border with the United States.

R. J. Reynolds did not respond to requests for comment, and no spokesperson could be reached at JTI-Macdonald.

Cigarette maker JTI Gallaher also shut its factory in Ballymena, County Antrim, with a similar number of job losses.