diff --git a/packages/babel-parser/src/parser/statement.ts b/packages/babel-parser/src/parser/statement.ts
index 93a08a9c4119..d14b3aa47b98 100644
--- a/packages/babel-parser/src/parser/statement.ts
+++ b/packages/babel-parser/src/parser/statement.ts
@@ -2653,7 +2653,7 @@ export default abstract class StatementParser extends ExpressionParser {
 
   parseMaybeImportReflection(node: Undone<N.ImportDeclaration>) {
     let isImportReflection = false;
-    if (this.match(tt._module) && !this.state.containsEsc) {
+    if (this.isContextual(tt._module)) {
       const lookahead = this.lookahead();
       if (tokenIsIdentifier(lookahead.type)) {
         if (lookahead.type !== tt._from) {