diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/example/example.ts b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/example/example.ts
index e45bc18cc..48722260b 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/example/example.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/example/example.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import { DcEvent, DeltaChat } from "../deltachat.js";
+import type { DcEvent } from "../deltachat.js";
+import { DeltaChat } from "../deltachat.js";
 
 var SELECTED_ACCOUNT = 0;
 
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/src/client.ts b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/src/client.ts
index 83cc2f7e7..10eb5e6c1 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/src/client.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/src/client.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import * as T from "../generated/types.js";
-import { EventType } from "../generated/types.js";
+import type { EventType } from "../generated/types.js";
 import * as RPC from "../generated/jsonrpc.js";
 import { RawClient } from "../generated/client.js";
-import { WebsocketTransport, BaseTransport, Request } from "yerpc";
+import type { Request } from "yerpc";
+import { WebsocketTransport, BaseTransport } from "yerpc";
 import { TinyEmitter } from "@deltachat/tiny-emitter";
 
 type Events = { ALL: (accountId: number, event: EventType) => void } & {
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/basic.ts b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/basic.ts
index d5ce57aec..839c01a5f 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/basic.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/basic.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import chaiAsPromised from "chai-as-promised";
 chai.use(chaiAsPromised);
 import { StdioDeltaChat as DeltaChat } from "../deltachat.js";
 
-import { RpcServerHandle, startServer } from "./test_base.js";
+import type { RpcServerHandle } from "./test_base.js";
+import { startServer } from "./test_base.js";
 
 describe("basic tests", () => {
   let serverHandle: RpcServerHandle;
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/online.ts b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/online.ts
index 92e42776b..03029e04f 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/online.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/online.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import { assert, expect } from "chai";
-import { StdioDeltaChat as DeltaChat, DcEvent } from "../deltachat.js";
-import { RpcServerHandle, createTempUser, startServer } from "./test_base.js";
+import { StdioDeltaChat as DeltaChat } from "../deltachat.js";
+import type { DcEvent } from "../deltachat.js";
+import type { RpcServerHandle } from "./test_base.js";
+import { createTempUser, startServer } from "./test_base.js";
 
 const EVENT_TIMEOUT = 20000;
 
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/tsconfig.json b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/tsconfig.json
index bbb699cf4..e4690fa34 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/tsconfig.json
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/tsconfig.json
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
     "target": "ES2017",
     "module": "es2020",
     "declaration": true,
+    "verbatimModuleSyntax": true,
     "esModuleInterop": true,
     "moduleResolution": "node",
     "noImplicitAny": true,