HOUSTON – Harwin Drive, a longtime favorite shopping destination for Houstonians seeking affordable goods, is facing significant challenges due to steep and unpredictable tariffs.
The changes are forcing some businesses to close and causing prices to rise, impacting both shopkeepers and shoppers.
Gus Youss, who runs “Royal Liquidation”, a clothing business on Harwin Drive, said the tariff situation has broken the business model that made the area popular. “I mean, we’re based on buying cheap, selling cheap. So we’re not buying cheap now. So we are not able to sell cheap,” Youss said…