diff --git a/flang/lib/Semantics/scope.cpp b/flang/lib/Semantics/scope.cpp
--- a/flang/lib/Semantics/scope.cpp
+++ b/flang/lib/Semantics/scope.cpp
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
         ? "IMPORT,NONE must be the only IMPORT statement in a scope"_err_en_US
         : "IMPORT,ALL must be the only IMPORT statement in a scope"_err_en_US;
   } else if (kind != *importKind_ &&
-      (kind != ImportKind::Only || kind != ImportKind::Only)) {
+      (kind != ImportKind::Only && *importKind_ != ImportKind::Only)) {
     return "Every IMPORT must have ONLY specifier if one of them does"_err_en_US;
   } else {
     return std::nullopt;