Mississippi
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
