diff --git a/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/ClassScope.java b/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/ClassScope.java
index 7823895d46..36db91197c 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/ClassScope.java
+++ b/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/ClassScope.java
@@ -381,6 +381,15 @@ public class ClassScope extends AbstractJavaScope {
             return qualified;
         }
 
+        // Is it an inner class of an explicit import?
+        int dotIndex = typeImage.indexOf('.');
+        if (dotIndex != -1) {
+            qualified = findQualifiedName(typeImage.substring(0, dotIndex), fileScope.getExplicitImports());
+            if (qualified != null) {
+                return qualified.concat(typeImage.substring(dotIndex));
+            }
+        }
+
         return typeImage;
     }
 
diff --git a/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/TypeSet.java b/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/TypeSet.java
index fdd1a6db63..b0b1bf8fd8 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/TypeSet.java
+++ b/pmd-java/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/TypeSet.java
@@ -437,6 +437,18 @@ public class TypeSet {
 
             return c;
         }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean couldResolve(String name) {
+            /*
+             * We can always try!
+             * If a file used an explicit import on A.Inner, the class loader will register
+             * A.Inner can't be resolved even if A$Inner can.
+             * If a second file used A.Inner without an explicit import, we would end here,
+             * super.couldResolve("A.Inner") will return false, but we CAN resolve it as A$Inner.
+             */
+            return true;
+        }
     }
 
     public void setASTCompilationUnitPackage(String pkg) {
diff --git a/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/ClassScopeTest.java b/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/ClassScopeTest.java
index 8736c665f1..ae62f018f1 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/ClassScopeTest.java
+++ b/pmd-java/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/java/symboltable/ClassScopeTest.java
@@ -169,6 +169,14 @@ public class ClassScopeTest extends STBBaseTst {
         assertEquals("(String,String...)", mnd.getParameterDisplaySignature());
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testNestedClassesOfImportResolution() {
+        parseCode(NESTED_CLASSES_OF_IMPORT);
+        final ASTClassOrInterfaceDeclaration n = acu.findDescendantsOfType(ASTClassOrInterfaceDeclaration.class).get(0);
+        final ClassScope c = (ClassScope) n.getScope();
+        assertEquals(EnumTest.class, c.resolveType("TheInnerClass.EnumTest"));
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testNestedClassesResolution() {
         parseForClass(InnerClass.class);
@@ -423,7 +431,9 @@ public class ClassScopeTest extends STBBaseTst {
             " public EnumTest e;" + PMD.EOL +
             "}" + PMD.EOL;
 
-    public static junit.framework.Test suite() {
-        return new junit.framework.JUnit4TestAdapter(ClassScopeTest.class);
-    }
+    private static final String NESTED_CLASSES_OF_IMPORT =
+            "import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.java.symboltable.testdata.InnerClass.TheInnerClass;" + PMD.EOL
+            + "public class Foo {" + PMD.EOL
+            + " public TheInnerClass.EnumTest e;" + PMD.EOL
+            + "}" + PMD.EOL;
 }