diff --git a/lib/import-export-visitor.js b/lib/import-export-visitor.js
index 04589bc..95272b1 100644
--- a/lib/import-export-visitor.js
+++ b/lib/import-export-visitor.js
@@ -390,12 +390,19 @@ class ImportExportVisitor extends Visitor {
   visitAwaitExpression(path) {
     if (!this.hasTopLevelAwait) {
       const parent = path.getParentNode(1);
-
+      const node = path.getNode();
       if (
         parent.type === 'ExpressionStatement' &&
         path.getParentNode(2).type === 'Program'
       ) {
         this.hasTopLevelAwait = true;
+      } else if (node.argument.type === "CallExpression" &&
+        node.argument.callee.type === "Identifier" &&
+        node.argument.callee.name === "__reifyWaitForDeps__"
+      ) {
+        // Do not treat the emitted "await __reifyWaitForDeps__()" as a TLA trigger
+        // This happens e.g. for the package refapp:meteor-typescript which subclasses
+        // BabelCompiler
       } else {
         this.hasTopLevelAwait = isTopLevelAwait(path.stack);
       }
diff --git a/test/babel-plugin-tests.js b/test/babel-plugin-tests.js
index 61a68e0..b1f01b7 100644
--- a/test/babel-plugin-tests.js
+++ b/test/babel-plugin-tests.js
@@ -106,6 +106,46 @@ describe("reify/plugins/babel", () => {
     );
   });
 
+
+  (topLevelAwaitEnabled ? describe : describe.skip)("top level await via babel plugin", ()=>{
+    it('doesn’t detect TLA for simple content', () => {
+      // Depends on the special __reifyWaitForDeps__ detection in visitAwaitExpression
+      const code = `
+import { Meteor } from "meteor/meteor";
+export const isServer = Meteor.isServer;
+`;
+      const ast = parse(code);
+      delete ast.tokens;
+      const result = transformFromAst(ast, code, {
+        plugins: [[reifyPlugin, {
+          dynamicImport: true
+        }]]
+      });
+      assert.match(
+        result.code,
+        /async: false\n/
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('detects TLA for simple content', () => {
+      const code = `
+import { Meteor } from "meteor/meteor";
+export const isServer = await Meteor.isServer;
+`;
+      const ast = parse(code);
+      delete ast.tokens;
+      const result = transformFromAst(ast, code, {
+        plugins: [[reifyPlugin, {
+          dynamicImport: true
+        }]]
+      });
+      assert.match(
+        result.code,
+        /async: true\n/
+      );
+    });    
+  });
+
   function check(code, options) {
     const ast = parse(code);
     delete ast.tokens;
diff --git a/test/run.sh b/test/run.sh
index 31f4f8f..ac235b0 100755
--- a/test/run.sh
+++ b/test/run.sh
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ TEST_DIR=$(pwd)
 export NODE_PENDING_DEPRECATION=1
 export NODE_OPTIONS="--trace-warnings"
 
-cd "$TEST_DIR"
+MOCHA_GREP=${MOCHA_GREP:-""}
 
+cd "$TEST_DIR"
 parsers=("babel" "acorn")
 tlaModes=('false' 'true')
 
@@ -21,17 +22,19 @@ for parser in ${parsers[@]}; do
         export REIFY_PARSER="$parser"
         export REIFY_TLA="$tla"
 
-        mocha \
+        npx mocha \
             --require "../node" \
             --reporter spec \
             --full-trace \
+            --grep "$MOCHA_GREP" \
             run.js
     done
 done
 
 # Run tests again using test/.cache.
-mocha \
+npx mocha \
     --require "../node" \
     --reporter spec \
     --full-trace \
+    --grep "$MOCHA_GREP" \
     run.js