diff --git a/public/api-builder/typescript-package/mocks/readTypeScriptModules/privateModule.ts b/public/api-builder/typescript-package/mocks/readTypeScriptModules/privateModule.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d4c6ef610a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/api-builder/typescript-package/mocks/readTypeScriptModules/privateModule.ts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export var x = 10;
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diff --git a/public/api-builder/typescript-package/mocks/readTypeScriptModules/publicModule.ts b/public/api-builder/typescript-package/mocks/readTypeScriptModules/publicModule.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c176de47fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/api-builder/typescript-package/mocks/readTypeScriptModules/publicModule.ts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export { x as y} from './privateModule';
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diff --git a/public/api-builder/typescript-package/processors/readTypeScriptModules.js b/public/api-builder/typescript-package/processors/readTypeScriptModules.js
index 5597898496..51e56a4242 100644
--- a/public/api-builder/typescript-package/processors/readTypeScriptModules.js
+++ b/public/api-builder/typescript-package/processors/readTypeScriptModules.js
@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ module.exports = function readTypeScriptModules(tsParser, modules, getFileInfo,
     if (exportSymbol.flags & ts.SymbolFlags.TypeAlias) {
       exportDoc.typeDefinition = typeDefinition;
     }
+
+    // Compute the original module name from the relative file path
+    exportDoc.originalModule = exportDoc.fileInfo.relativePath
+        .replace(new RegExp('\.' + exportDoc.fileInfo.extension + '$'), '');
+
     return exportDoc;
   }
 
diff --git a/public/api-builder/typescript-package/processors/readTypeScriptModules.spec.js b/public/api-builder/typescript-package/processors/readTypeScriptModules.spec.js
index 53d959c70c..76b3605f1c 100644
--- a/public/api-builder/typescript-package/processors/readTypeScriptModules.spec.js
+++ b/public/api-builder/typescript-package/processors/readTypeScriptModules.spec.js
@@ -13,6 +13,17 @@ describe('readTypeScriptModules', function() {
     processor.basePath = path.resolve(__dirname, '../mocks/readTypeScriptModules');
   });
 
+  describe('exportDocs', function() {
+    it('should provide the original module if the export is re-exported', function() {
+      processor.sourceFiles = [ 'publicModule.ts' ];
+      var docs = [];
+      processor.$process(docs);
+
+      var exportedDoc = docs[1];
+      expect(exportedDoc.originalModule).toEqual('privateModule');
+    });
+  });
+
 
   describe('ignoreExportsMatching', function() {
     it('should ignore exports that match items in the `ignoreExportsMatching` property', function() {