Vendors and fans packed the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center for San Japan this weekend, hunting for rare finds and showing off some creative cosplay.

The convention took place as thousands of vendors face additional tariffs as a result of a recent executive order.

Carley Cunningham, owner of Strawberry Moon in Corpus Christi, said small business owners are absorbing a lot of the extra price.

“It makes it really difficult, and right now we’re eating most of the tariff costs,” she said. “We mostly eat a lot of the shipping tariffs in general, and I’ve just been trying to keep it level. So our profit margin is even less than it normally is.”

Recently, President Trump signed an executive order banning the de minimis tariff rule. This allowed goods worth less than $800, coming from any

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