diff --git a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/solidityImport.test.ts b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/solidityImport.test.ts
index 55d4ba96bd..115119e996 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/solidityImport.test.ts
+++ b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/solidityImport.test.ts
@@ -112,7 +112,31 @@ module.exports = {
         timeout: 120000,
       })
       .verifyContracts(['test13', 'ERC20'], { wait: 30000 })
-      .end()
+  },
+
+  'Test NPM Import (the version is specified in package.json) #group4': function (browser: NightwatchBrowser) {
+    browser
+      // clone https://github.com/yann300/remix-reward
+      .clickLaunchIcon('filePanel')
+      .waitForElementVisible('[data-id="workspaceMenuDropdown"]')
+      .click('[data-id="workspaceMenuDropdown"]')
+      .waitForElementVisible('[data-id="workspaceclone"]')
+      .click('[data-id="workspaceclone"]')
+      .waitForElementVisible('[data-id="fileSystemModalDialogModalBody-react"]')
+      .click('[data-id="fileSystemModalDialogModalBody-react"]')
+      .waitForElementVisible('[data-id="modalDialogCustomPromptTextClone"]')
+      .setValue('[data-id="modalDialogCustomPromptTextClone"]', 'https://github.com/yann300/remix-reward')
+      .click('[data-id="fileSystem-modal-footer-ok-react"]')
+      .waitForElementPresent('.fa-spinner')
+      .pause(5000)
+      .waitForElementNotPresent('.fa-spinner')
+      .waitForElementVisible('*[data-id="treeViewLitreeViewItem.git"]')
+      .waitForElementContainsText('[data-id="workspacesSelect"]', 'remix-reward')
+      .clickLaunchIcon('solidity')
+      // compile (this will be using the version specified in the package.json)
+      .openFile('contracts')
+      .openFile('contracts/RemixRewardUpgradable.sol')
+      .verifyContracts(['Remix'])
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/libs/remix-url-resolver/src/resolve.ts b/libs/remix-url-resolver/src/resolve.ts
index dbe1d09167..d0b08eeaf7 100644
--- a/libs/remix-url-resolver/src/resolve.ts
+++ b/libs/remix-url-resolver/src/resolve.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // eslint-disable-next-line no-unused-vars
 import axios, { AxiosResponse } from 'axios'
+import semver from 'semver'
 import { BzzNode as Bzz } from '@erebos/bzz-node'
 
 export interface Imported {
@@ -137,14 +138,16 @@ export class RemixURLResolver {
   */
 
   async handleNpmImport(url: string): Promise<HandlerResponse> {
-      if (this.getDependencies) {
+      if (!url) throw new Error('url is empty')
+      const isVersionned = semverRegex().exec(url.replace(/@/g, '@ ').replace(/\//g, ' /'))
+      if (this.getDependencies && !isVersionned) {
         try {
           const { deps, yarnLock, packageLock } = await this.getDependencies()
           let matchLength = 0
           let pkg
           if (deps) {
             Object.keys(deps).map((dep) => {
-              const reg = new RegExp(dep, 'g')
+              const reg = new RegExp(dep + '/', 'g')
               const match = url.match(reg)
               if (match && match.length > 0 && matchLength < match[0].length) {
                 matchLength = match[0].length
@@ -169,7 +172,10 @@ export class RemixURLResolver {
                 // package.json
                 version = deps[pkg]
               }
-              if (version) url = url.replace(pkg, `${pkg}@${version}`)
+              if (version) {
+                const versionSemver = semver.minVersion(version)
+                url = url.replace(pkg, `${pkg}@${versionSemver.version}`)
+              }
             }
           }
         } catch (e) {
@@ -177,7 +183,6 @@ export class RemixURLResolver {
         }
       }
 
-
       const npm_urls = ["https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/", "https://unpkg.com/"]
       process && process.env && process.env['NPM_URL'] && npm_urls.unshift(process.env['NPM_URL'])
       let content = null
@@ -253,3 +258,8 @@ export class RemixURLResolver {
     return imported
   }
 }
+
+// see npm semver-regex
+function semverRegex() {
+	return /(?<=^v?|\sv?)(?:(?:0|[1-9]\d{0,9}?)\.){2}(?:0|[1-9]\d{0,9})(?:-(?:--+)?(?:0|[1-9]\d*|\d*[a-z]+\d*)){0,100}(?=$| |\+|\.)(?:(?<=-\S+)(?:\.(?:--?|[\da-z-]*[a-z-]\d*|0|[1-9]\d*)){1,100}?)?(?!\.)(?:\+(?:[\da-z]\.?-?){1,100}?(?!\w))?(?!\+)/gi;
+}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 3039f466e5..8d6abcb696 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
     "request": "^2.83.0",
     "rimraf": "^2.6.1",
     "selenium-standalone": "^8.2.3",
-    "semver": "^6.3.0",
+    "semver": "^7.4.0",
     "solc": "0.7.4",
     "stream-browserify": "^3.0.0",
     "stream-http": "^3.2.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index ba4025ff0f..b355a8d151 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -23663,6 +23663,13 @@ semver@^7.3.7:
   dependencies:
     lru-cache "^6.0.0"
 
+semver@^7.4.0:
+  version "7.4.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/semver/-/semver-7.4.0.tgz#8481c92feffc531ab1e012a8ffc15bdd3a0f4318"
+  integrity sha512-RgOxM8Mw+7Zus0+zcLEUn8+JfoLpj/huFTItQy2hsM4khuC1HYRDp0cU482Ewn/Fcy6bCjufD8vAj7voC66KQw==
+  dependencies:
+    lru-cache "^6.0.0"
+
 semver@~7.0.0:
   version "7.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/semver/-/semver-7.0.0.tgz#5f3ca35761e47e05b206c6daff2cf814f0316b8e"