diff --git a/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/ByteBuffer-foundation.swift b/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/ByteBuffer-foundation.swift
index 7aedfb17b0..0b32aa2c92 100644
--- a/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/ByteBuffer-foundation.swift
+++ b/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/ByteBuffer-foundation.swift
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
-import Foundation
 import NIOCore
 
+#if canImport(FoundationEssentials)
+import FoundationEssentials
+#else
+import Foundation
+#endif
+
 /// Errors that may be thrown by ByteBuffer methods that call into Foundation.
 public enum ByteBufferFoundationError: Error {
     /// Attempting to encode the given string failed.
diff --git a/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/Codable+ByteBuffer.swift b/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/Codable+ByteBuffer.swift
index 0f61ad0ae1..1edd07d007 100644
--- a/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/Codable+ByteBuffer.swift
+++ b/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/Codable+ByteBuffer.swift
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
-import Foundation
 import NIOCore
 
+#if canImport(FoundationEssentials)
+import FoundationEssentials
+#else
+import Foundation
+#endif
+
 extension ByteBuffer {
     /// Attempts to decode the `length` bytes from `index` using the `JSONDecoder` `decoder` as `T`.
     ///
diff --git a/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/JSONSerialization+ByteBuffer.swift b/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/JSONSerialization+ByteBuffer.swift
index d8f00438ca..da97f7f1c9 100644
--- a/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/JSONSerialization+ByteBuffer.swift
+++ b/Sources/NIOFoundationCompat/JSONSerialization+ByteBuffer.swift
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
-import Foundation
 import NIOCore
 
+#if canImport(FoundationEssentials)
+import FoundationEssentials
+#else
+import Foundation
+#endif
+
 extension JSONSerialization {
 
     /// Attempts to derive a Foundation object from a ByteBuffer and return it as `T`.