INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS • FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT • DIGITAL TRADE • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Opportunity Begins With Access
We design international growth by connecting strategy, investment, trusted relationships, and global opportunity.
Making Global Business Feel Just Down the Street.
Because global opportunity should never be limited by complexity.
500+
BUSINESSES SUPPORTED
Trusted by businesses, investors, economic development organizations, governments, and institutions to support international growth.
120+
COUNTRIES REACHED
4
CALIFORNIA EXPORT PROGRAMS
Founded by Simona Filip Racek, appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to serve on the San Diego & Imperial District Export Council.
2
PRESIDENT'S "E" AWARD PROGRAMS
16+
YEARS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Why We Exist
International business creates opportunity. It strengthens companies, attracts investment, creates jobs, and builds stronger economies.
Yet the systems supporting it have grown more complex. That complexity is inherited, not designed. Every regulation, document, intermediary, and digital platform was created to solve a real problem. Over time, those solutions accumulated into the systems businesses navigate today.
The future deserves a better design.
We believe international business should be built around trust, intelligent strategy, responsible digitalization, meaningful partnerships, and practical execution.
Because no company grows internationally alone.
Trade is not built on documents. It is built on trust. Documents simply record that trust.
Why Just Down The Street?
The name is not about geography. It is a philosophy.
International business can feel distant and complicated, with different markets, regulations, cultures, and languages.
We make it understandable, practical, and human.
Like walking just down the street to meet a trusted neighbor.
HOW WE BUILD GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY
INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION
We guide the complete international expansion journey from market selection, compliance, pricing strategy, and transaction structuring to financing, partnerships, distribution, and execution.
Designed for sustainable international growth.
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
We identify, structure, and develop the partnerships that drive international growth connecting businesses, investors, institutions, governments, nonprofits, & market specialists around shared objectives.
Because global business is built on trusted relationships.
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT & U.S. MARKET ENTRY
We assess market readiness, build the right market-entry roadmap, including compliance, and connect the right experts before unnecessary time or capital is spent.
One architect holds the vision. The right experts bring it to life.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & TRADE ECOSYSTEMS
We strengthen regional competitiveness by collaborating with economic development organizations, governments, nonprofits, universities, chambers of commerce, and World Trade Centers.
When businesses grow internationally, communities grow with them.
DIGITAL TRADE & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
We advise organizations on using digital trade and artificial intelligence to simplify international business while strengthening transparency, trust, and decision-making, with strategic thinking leading the technology rather than following it.
Technology creates value when it strengthens trust.
FRACTIONAL CHIEF GLOBAL TRADE OFFICER
We become an extension of your leadership team, providing executive global trade expertise without the full-time commitment.
Building global capability from within.
WHY ORGANIZATIONS WORK WITH JUST DOWN THE STREET
Organizations work with us because they need more than technical expertise. They need someone who sees the entire picture strategy and execution, private enterprise and public purpose, investment and economic development, technology and human relationships.
Through Simaris Trade, the international import, export, and distribution company founded and led by Simona Filip Racek, we remain close to the realities of international commerce across more than 120 countries.
Our work is grounded in practice, not theory alone.
PRIVATE SECTOR
Manufacturers • Foreign Direct Investment • Exporters • Importers
• Distributors • Investors
International Expansion • U.S. Market Entry
• Strategic Growth
Founded in Los Angeles in 2015, Just Down The Street works where private enterprise and public purpose intersect.
WHO WE WORK WITH
PUBLIC & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Economic Development Organizations • Governments
• World Trade Centers • SBDC Networks
Chambers of Commerce • Universities • Nonprofits
• International Trade Programs
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE
Program Leader & Trade Specialist
Go Global Trade Program | Los Angeles Regional SBDC Network
President's "E" Award for Export Service
WORLD TRADE CENTER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Export Advisor
World Trade Connect Accelerator
We also design and lead international trade missions and diplomatic initiatives connecting California with global markets.
WHO WE WORK WITH
WORLD TRADE CENTER SAN DIEGO
Export Advisor
MetroConnect | San Diego & Imperial SBDC Network
President's "E" Award for Export Service
LOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Program Leader & Export Advisor
Regional Export Training and Promotion (RETAP)
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to expand global opportunity by making international business more understandable, more trusted, and more accessible. We transform strategy into execution by designing the strategies, partnerships, and ecosystems that create lasting value for companies, communities, and economies through trusted relationships across borders.
Let's Build the Future Together
Whether you're expanding internationally, entering the U.S. market, attracting investment, or strengthening your international strategy, we'd welcome the opportunity to learn about your goals.
Every opportunity begins with a conversation. Every partnership begins with trust. Let’s talk.