typescript TS1005 error when importing types from type definition

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One of the libraries (parse5) used by my project is exposing typing information (in .d.ts files) using the following syntax to import types:

import { type CharacterToken, type DoctypeToken, type TagToken, type EOFToken, type CommentToken } from '../common/token.js';

This is causing a bunch of typescript errors when running the application, since it looks like typescript doesn't recognise this why of importing types.

If I change the syntax to

import type { CharacterToken, DoctypeToken, TagToken, EOFToken, CommentToken } from '../common/token.js';

I don't get any error.

might it be that I'm using a wrong tsc version?

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In TypeScript(3.8) you should use import type { SomeThing } from "./some-module.js";, not import { type SomeThing } from "./some-module.js";

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