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Flathau’s Fine Foods

It all began with Heather Flathau’s love for candy and her husband Jeff’s family recipe for shortbread cookies. Eighteen years later, Flathau’s Fine Foods, a family-owned business in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, bakes sweets for customers worldwide.

The company exports to TPP partner Canada, among other foreign markets. Exports are critical to the company’s success; with 25 percent of Flathau’s Fine Foods’ total sales coming from exports each year, 5 jobs are directly supported by trade.

  • Ships to TPP partner countries
  • 25% of total sales from exports
  • Faces tariffs as high as 34% in TPP countries

“Many times the tariffs that my foreign distributors must deal with can decide if they will become a distributor of my product. Any trade agreement will open doors for new markets. I look forward for all foreign markets to open up to have a free enterprise system to sell my product overseas.”

 

Heather Flathau