diff --git a/internal/terraform/context_import_test.go b/internal/terraform/context_import_test.go
index dc773dcf1f86..920fe234384e 100644
--- a/internal/terraform/context_import_test.go
+++ b/internal/terraform/context_import_test.go
@@ -915,6 +915,76 @@ resource "test_resource" "unused" {
 	}
 }
 
+// New resources in the config during import won't exist for evaluation
+// purposes (until import is upgraded to using a complete plan). This means
+// that references to them are unknown, but in the case of single instances, we
+// can at least know the type of unknown value.
+func TestContextImport_newResourceUnknown(t *testing.T) {
+	p := testProvider("aws")
+	m := testModuleInline(t, map[string]string{
+		"main.tf": `
+resource "test_resource" "one" {
+}
+
+resource "test_resource" "two" {
+  count = length(flatten([test_resource.one.id]))
+}
+
+resource "test_resource" "test" {
+}
+`})
+
+	p.GetProviderSchemaResponse = getProviderSchemaResponseFromProviderSchema(&ProviderSchema{
+		ResourceTypes: map[string]*configschema.Block{
+			"test_resource": {
+				Attributes: map[string]*configschema.Attribute{
+					"id": {Type: cty.String, Computed: true},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	})
+
+	p.ImportResourceStateResponse = &providers.ImportResourceStateResponse{
+		ImportedResources: []providers.ImportedResource{
+			{
+				TypeName: "test_resource",
+				State: cty.ObjectVal(map[string]cty.Value{
+					"id": cty.StringVal("test"),
+				}),
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	ctx := testContext2(t, &ContextOpts{
+		Providers: map[addrs.Provider]providers.Factory{
+			addrs.NewDefaultProvider("test"): testProviderFuncFixed(p),
+		},
+	})
+
+	state, diags := ctx.Import(m, states.NewState(), &ImportOpts{
+		Targets: []*ImportTarget{
+			{
+				Addr: addrs.RootModuleInstance.ResourceInstance(
+					addrs.ManagedResourceMode, "test_resource", "test", addrs.NoKey,
+				),
+				ID: "test",
+			},
+		},
+	})
+	if diags.HasErrors() {
+		t.Fatal(diags.ErrWithWarnings())
+	}
+
+	ri := state.ResourceInstance(mustResourceInstanceAddr("test_resource.test"))
+	expected := `{"id":"test"}`
+	if ri == nil || ri.Current == nil {
+		t.Fatal("no state is recorded for resource instance test_resource.test")
+	}
+	if string(ri.Current.AttrsJSON) != expected {
+		t.Fatalf("expected %q, got %q\n", expected, ri.Current.AttrsJSON)
+	}
+}
+
 const testImportStr = `
 aws_instance.foo:
   ID = foo
diff --git a/internal/terraform/evaluate.go b/internal/terraform/evaluate.go
index f8df6a2dc054..b841dbd863e2 100644
--- a/internal/terraform/evaluate.go
+++ b/internal/terraform/evaluate.go
@@ -695,6 +695,29 @@ func (d *evaluationStateData) GetResource(addr addrs.Resource, rng tfdiags.Sourc
 				return cty.DynamicVal, diags
 			}
 
+		case walkImport:
+			// Import does not yet plan resource changes, so new resources from
+			// config are not going to be found here. Once walkImport fully
+			// plans resources, this case should not longer be needed.
+			// In the single instance case, we can return a typed unknown value
+			// for the instance to better satisfy other expressions using the
+			// value. This of course will not help if statically known
+			// attributes are expected to be known elsewhere, but reduces the
+			// number of problematic configs for now.
+			// Unlike in plan and apply above we can't be sure the count or
+			// for_each instances are empty, so we return a DynamicVal. We
+			// don't really have a good value to return otherwise -- empty
+			// values will fail for direct index expressions, and unknown
+			// Lists and Maps could fail in some type unifications.
+			switch {
+			case config.Count != nil:
+				return cty.DynamicVal, diags
+			case config.ForEach != nil:
+				return cty.DynamicVal, diags
+			default:
+				return cty.UnknownVal(ty), diags
+			}
+
 		default:
 			// We should only end up here during the validate walk,
 			// since later walks should have at least partial states populated
diff --git a/internal/terraform/testdata/import-provider-resources/main.tf b/internal/terraform/testdata/import-provider-resources/main.tf
index cb92470fab37..a99ee5e94160 100644
--- a/internal/terraform/testdata/import-provider-resources/main.tf
+++ b/internal/terraform/testdata/import-provider-resources/main.tf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 provider "aws" {
-    value = "${test_instance.bar.value}"
+    value = "${test_instance.bar.id}"
 }
 
 resource "aws_instance" "foo" {