diff --git a/backend/applications/tests/sharedSubpathExports.test.ts b/backend/applications/tests/sharedSubpathExports.test.ts
index cecc6a7c3..bdff1c1a9 100644
--- a/backend/applications/tests/sharedSubpathExports.test.ts
+++ b/backend/applications/tests/sharedSubpathExports.test.ts
@@ -23,16 +23,15 @@ const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../..')
 const SHARED_PKG = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'shared', 'package.json')
 
 /**
- * billing-service still imports `@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka`. It does not
- * crash only because its runtime image copies `shared/dist` WITHOUT
- * `shared/package.json` (see services/billing-service/Dockerfile), so there is
- * no `exports` map in the image to enforce — it works by accident, and adding
- * that one COPY line would break it exactly as applications-service broke.
- * Recorded here as a known exception rather than silently excluded; migrating
- * it needs its tsconfig `paths` and jest moduleNameMapper updated too, which
- * is deliberately not bundled into an incident fix for a different service.
+ * billing-service used to import `@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka` and only
+ * avoided crashing because its runtime image copied `shared/dist` WITHOUT
+ * `shared/package.json`, so there was no `exports` map in the image to
+ * enforce — it worked by accident. Fixed in #753: the imports now name the
+ * supported `@fuzefront/shared/kafka` subpath, with tsconfig `paths`, jest
+ * `moduleNameMapper`, and the Dockerfile's `shared/package.json` COPY updated
+ * to match. No exception left to record here.
  */
-const KNOWN_UNMIGRATED = ['services/billing-service/']
+const KNOWN_UNMIGRATED: string[] = []
 
 // Matches only real import syntax — `from '...'` / `require('...')` — not any
 // quoted occurrence. An earlier version matched backtick-delimited text too and
diff --git a/services/billing-service/Dockerfile b/services/billing-service/Dockerfile
index 6b57ffcf4..a641beb1c 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/Dockerfile
+++ b/services/billing-service/Dockerfile
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache dumb-init && \
 
 COPY --from=base /app/services/billing-service/node_modules ./services/billing-service/node_modules
 COPY --from=build /app/shared/dist ./shared/dist
+# shared/package.json carries the `exports` map that makes `@fuzefront/shared/kafka`
+# (the supported subpath — see src/index.ts et al.) resolvable at all: with no
+# package.json here, Node has no `exports` to consult and a subpath import beyond
+# the package root simply 404s (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), it does not "fall back" to
+# anything. Omitting this file is NOT a safe shortcut — a prior version of this
+# image omitted it, which happened to make an undeclared deep path
+# (`@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka`) resolve by accident (no exports map to enforce
+# against). That was the bug fixed here (issue #753); this COPY is what makes the
+# *correct* subpath import work in the image the same way it works locally.
+COPY --from=build /app/shared/package.json ./shared/package.json
 # shared/dist/kafka/* does require('zod') + kafkajs at runtime, resolved by walking
 # UP from the file → it reaches /app/node_modules. The service deps (which include
 # zod + kafkajs) only sat in the sibling services/billing-service/node_modules,
diff --git a/services/billing-service/jest.config.js b/services/billing-service/jest.config.js
index e26cc80cc..00251e6c5 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/jest.config.js
+++ b/services/billing-service/jest.config.js
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ module.exports = {
   // Pointing to shared/src/index.ts would pull in AppContext.tsx (JSX), which ts-jest
   // cannot compile without --jsx. Since billing-service only ever imports from the kafka
   // sub-tree of shared, the narrower mapping is intentional — not a partial-import trap.
+  // The mapper key names the SUPPORTED subpath (@fuzefront/shared/kafka, matching the
+  // package's declared `exports`), not the dist/ internal it used to point at.
   moduleNameMapper: {
-    '^@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka$': '<rootDir>/../../shared/src/kafka/index.ts',
+    '^@fuzefront/shared/kafka$': '<rootDir>/../../shared/src/kafka/index.ts',
     '^@izzywdev/fuzefront-identity$': '<rootDir>/../../packages/identity/src/index.ts',
     '^@fuzefront/shared$': '<rootDir>/../../shared/src/kafka/index.ts',
   },
diff --git a/services/billing-service/src/index.ts b/services/billing-service/src/index.ts
index bb03b3c26..f649672c8 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/src/index.ts
+++ b/services/billing-service/src/index.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   createKafkaClient,
   TypedProducer,
   TypedConsumer,
-} from '@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka';
+} from '@fuzefront/shared/kafka';
 import { loadConfig } from './config';
 import { createApp, AppDeps } from './app';
 import { createPool, runMigrations } from './db';
diff --git a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/consumer.ts b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/consumer.ts
index 681745f42..b447f5cf3 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/consumer.ts
+++ b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/consumer.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {
   billingUsageRecordedSchemaV1,
   BillingUsageRecordedPayloadV1,
   FuzeEvent,
-} from '@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka';
+} from '@fuzefront/shared/kafka';
 import { MeteringService } from '../services/metering.service';
 
 /**
diff --git a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/org-deleted.consumer.ts b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/org-deleted.consumer.ts
index 3fb27c841..3cdb532e4 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/org-deleted.consumer.ts
+++ b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/org-deleted.consumer.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {
   identityOrgDeletedSchemaV1,
   IdentityOrgDeletedPayloadV1,
   FuzeEvent,
-} from '@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka';
+} from '@fuzefront/shared/kafka';
 import {
   handleOrgDeleted,
   OrgDeletedHandlerDeps,
diff --git a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/org-deleted.handler.ts b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/org-deleted.handler.ts
index 1c49167a3..5d8c934cf 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/org-deleted.handler.ts
+++ b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/org-deleted.handler.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import {
   FuzeEvent,
   IdentityOrgDeletedPayloadV1,
-} from '@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka';
+} from '@fuzefront/shared/kafka';
 import { CustomerRepository } from '../repositories/customer.repository';
 import { SubscriptionRepository } from '../repositories/subscription.repository';
 import { SubscriptionService } from '../services/subscription.service';
diff --git a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/producer.ts b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/producer.ts
index d1ee9a7a4..d2642a90d 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/producer.ts
+++ b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/producer.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
   BillingTenantRegisteredPayloadV1,
   billingPaymentMethodUpdatedSchemaV1,
   BillingPaymentMethodUpdatedPayloadV1,
-} from '@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka';
+} from '@fuzefront/shared/kafka';
 import { randomUUID } from 'crypto';
 
 /**
diff --git a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/ref-index.consumer.ts b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/ref-index.consumer.ts
index 525d3e8ab..010b45ab2 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/src/kafka/ref-index.consumer.ts
+++ b/services/billing-service/src/kafka/ref-index.consumer.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   TypedConsumer,
   TypedProducer,
   FuzeEvent,
-} from '@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka';
+} from '@fuzefront/shared/kafka';
 import {
   applyEventToRefIndex,
   REF_INDEX_TOPICS,
diff --git a/services/billing-service/tests/kafka/org-deleted.handler.test.ts b/services/billing-service/tests/kafka/org-deleted.handler.test.ts
index a82561f3a..7591131f4 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/tests/kafka/org-deleted.handler.test.ts
+++ b/services/billing-service/tests/kafka/org-deleted.handler.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   FuzeEvent,
   TOPICS,
   IdentityOrgDeletedPayloadV1,
-} from '@fuzefront/shared/dist/kafka';
+} from '@fuzefront/shared/kafka';
 import { BillingCustomer, BillingSubscription } from '../../src/types';
 
 const ORG_ID = '33333333-3333-3333-3333-333333333333';
diff --git a/services/billing-service/tsconfig.json b/services/billing-service/tsconfig.json
index f20af9ad3..15486938f 100644
--- a/services/billing-service/tsconfig.json
+++ b/services/billing-service/tsconfig.json
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
     "module": "commonjs",
     "outDir": "./dist",
     "rootDir": "./src",
+    "baseUrl": ".",
+    "paths": {
+      "@fuzefront/shared/kafka": ["../../shared/dist/kafka/index.d.ts"]
+    },
     "strict": false,
     "noImplicitAny": false,
     "declaration": true,