Mining firms, airlines, steel makers and energy firms are among those expected to be hardest hit.
ValuEngine cut Brazilian steel makers Gerdau (GGB) and CSN (SID) from the buy list this week.
Foreign steel makers found other markets during that span, namely China and Middle Eastern countries.
Some big steel makers have tried to see off the threat by running their own mini-mills.
The big, integrated steel makers pooh-poohed the tiny mini-mills when they started up in the 1970s.
Russian and Japanese steel makers, for instance, are already negotiating to limit their exports to America.
Backed by an army of lawyers, American steel makers have been attacking imports for decades, successfully winning over one administration after another.
BNDES, among others, argues that, in order to boost exports of higher-value products, Brazil's handful of steel makers need to join forces.
Lower-cost foreign steel makers have a quarter of the American market.
As a result, even the weakest steel makers have hobbled along.
Aside from their own high costs, the biggest blow to American steel makers in recent years has been the strong dollar, which makes all imports cheaper.
The union gave ground on some issues, but refused to budge on pensioner benefits, fearing that it would have to make concessions with other steel makers too.
Chinese steel makers made meager profits in March, April and May and reported losses in the following months, only improving their performance in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Canadian steel makers are preparing anti-dumping actions against four countries.
In the first 11 months of 2012, the 80 major steel makers posted a loss of 1.97 billion yuan, said Wang Qinghai, chairman of the association, during a meeting this weekend.
Wuhan Steel agreed and also forecast a decline in steel demand for 2011, saying that profit margins for steel makers could be eroded if raw material and energy costs continue to rise.
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Steel makers have been forced to take steps to protect themselves against painful raw material cost increases mainly due to surging demand from Asia's tiger economies, including China, to power their growth.
After all, Europe's steel makers are enduring a double blow: prices were already low thanks to sluggish European demand in recent years, but they have been dragged down further by cheap imported steel from Asia and Eastern Europe.
Pension benefits are a particular problem in the industry and would be at risk if firms closed, but the government's Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation helps workers with pension plans when their employers go bust, even if the result is less generous than the recklessly extravagant promises the steel makers made.
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He is not against the (at least partial) sale of three or four of the remaining big state banks, mines and steel-makers.
Although no American firm could currently deliver such a contract, Ispat soon might: it already produces, sources and sells lower grades of steel all over the world, and it is expanding into the high-quality steel that car makers demand.
Traditional industries such as steel and chemical makers are opposed to any action because they are afraid it will create a precedent for what they see as interference with free market dynamics that will only add costs to their balance sheets.
Suppliers, from cement and steel to heavy equipment makers, are feeling the pinch.
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Meanwhile, government lenders, like the Japan Development Bank, are handing out cheap money to car makers, steel companies and supermarket chains, further easing fears about jobs.
The country had also become home to the sort of industries that a strong military government would want plenty of, such as giant steel firms, car makers and shipbuilders.
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