That Wal-Mart Stores spent $25 million on lobbying in the United States over the past four years on such issues as whether India would open its own retail markets to the global behemoth should surprise no one, much less shut down India’s parliament, as it did.

Wal-Mart is one of the largest companies in the world, and many major companies with operations in the United States spend millions on their Washington D.C. lobbying operations.

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Indian Firms No Stranger to Lobbying In The United States