diff --git a/.changeset/soft-books-wink.md b/.changeset/soft-books-wink.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7add58dc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/soft-books-wink.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"aws-sdk-js-codemod": patch
+---
+
+Remove type assertion for ImportSpecifierType
diff --git a/src/transforms/v2-to-v3/ts-type/getClientTypeNames.ts b/src/transforms/v2-to-v3/ts-type/getClientTypeNames.ts
index 21e1bbcda..2dd0c08cb 100644
--- a/src/transforms/v2-to-v3/ts-type/getClientTypeNames.ts
+++ b/src/transforms/v2-to-v3/ts-type/getClientTypeNames.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import type { Collection, JSCodeshift, TSQualifiedName, TSTypeReference } from "jscodeshift";
 
-import type { ImportSpecifierType } from "../modules";
 import { getImportSpecifiers } from "../modules/importModule";
 import { getClientDeepImportPath } from "../utils";
 import {
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ export const getClientTypeNames = (
   clientTypeNames.push(
     ...getImportSpecifiers(j, source, getClientDeepImportPath(v2ClientName))
       .filter((importSpecifier) => importSpecifier.importedName)
-      .map((importSpecifier) => (importSpecifier as ImportSpecifierType).localName)
+      .map((importSpecifier) => importSpecifier.localName)
   );
 
   return [...new Set(clientTypeNames)];