diff --git a/apps/api-extractor/src/generators/DtsRollupGenerator.ts b/apps/api-extractor/src/generators/DtsRollupGenerator.ts
index 7a9e9fb5550..2de36342800 100644
--- a/apps/api-extractor/src/generators/DtsRollupGenerator.ts
+++ b/apps/api-extractor/src/generators/DtsRollupGenerator.ts
@@ -105,18 +105,12 @@ export class DtsRollupGenerator {
     // Emit the imports
     for (const entity of collector.entities) {
       if (entity.astEntity instanceof AstImport) {
+        // Note: it isn't valid to trim imports based on their release tags.
+        // E.g. class Foo (`@public`) extends interface Bar (`@beta`) from some external library.
+        // API-Extractor cannot trim `import { Bar } from "externa-library"` when generating its public rollup,
+        // or the export of `Foo` would include a broken reference to `Bar`.
         const astImport: AstImport = entity.astEntity;
-
-        // For example, if the imported API comes from an external package that supports AEDoc,
-        // and it was marked as `@internal`, then don't emit it.
-        const symbolMetadata: SymbolMetadata | undefined = collector.tryFetchMetadataForAstEntity(astImport);
-        const maxEffectiveReleaseTag: ReleaseTag = symbolMetadata
-          ? symbolMetadata.maxEffectiveReleaseTag
-          : ReleaseTag.None;
-
-        if (this._shouldIncludeReleaseTag(maxEffectiveReleaseTag, dtsKind)) {
-          DtsEmitHelpers.emitImport(writer, entity, astImport);
-        }
+        DtsEmitHelpers.emitImport(writer, entity, astImport);
       }
     }
     writer.ensureSkippedLine();
diff --git a/common/changes/@microsoft/api-extractor/dont-trim-imports_2024-02-21-00-32.json b/common/changes/@microsoft/api-extractor/dont-trim-imports_2024-02-21-00-32.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..36f903e40d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/@microsoft/api-extractor/dont-trim-imports_2024-02-21-00-32.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "@microsoft/api-extractor",
+      "comment": "Fix an issue where imports were trimmed from external packages based when generating .d.ts rollups",
+      "type": "patch"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "@microsoft/api-extractor"
+}
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