diff --git a/src/compiler/checker.ts b/src/compiler/checker.ts
index 01b8436b8b6..970d33acea8 100644
--- a/src/compiler/checker.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/checker.ts
@@ -4984,6 +4984,7 @@ export function createTypeChecker(host: TypeCheckerHost): TypeChecker {
                 (isLiteralImportTypeNode(location) ? location : undefined)?.argument.literal;
         const mode = contextSpecifier && isStringLiteralLike(contextSpecifier) ? getModeForUsageLocation(currentSourceFile, contextSpecifier) : currentSourceFile.impliedNodeFormat;
         const moduleResolutionKind = getEmitModuleResolutionKind(compilerOptions);
+        const moduleFormatInterop = getModuleFormatInteropKind(compilerOptions);
         const resolvedModule = host.getResolvedModule(currentSourceFile, moduleReference, mode)?.resolvedModule;
         const resolutionDiagnostic = resolvedModule && getResolutionDiagnostic(compilerOptions, resolvedModule, currentSourceFile);
         const sourceFile = resolvedModule
@@ -5019,7 +5020,7 @@ export function createTypeChecker(host: TypeCheckerHost): TypeChecker {
                 if (resolvedModule.isExternalLibraryImport && !resolutionExtensionIsTSOrJson(resolvedModule.extension)) {
                     errorOnImplicitAnyModule(/*isError*/ false, errorNode, currentSourceFile, mode, resolvedModule, moduleReference);
                 }
-                if (moduleResolutionKind === ModuleResolutionKind.Node16 || moduleResolutionKind === ModuleResolutionKind.NodeNext) {
+                if (moduleFormatInterop === ModuleFormatInteropKind.Node16 || moduleFormatInterop === ModuleFormatInteropKind.NodeNext) {
                     const isSyncImport = (currentSourceFile.impliedNodeFormat === ModuleKind.CommonJS && !findAncestor(location, isImportCall)) || !!findAncestor(location, isImportEqualsDeclaration);
                     const overrideHost = findAncestor(location, l => isImportTypeNode(l) || isExportDeclaration(l) || isImportDeclaration(l)) as ImportTypeNode | ImportDeclaration | ExportDeclaration | undefined;
                     // An override clause will take effect for type-only imports and import types, and allows importing the types across formats, regardless of