Was able to finally import another module. My issue was
I started the repo using create-daml-app, and the repo itself was a daml project
So when I tried to do daml new triggers within this repo, I wasn’t able to create a daml project within the daml project.
What I did to resolve it
Create a new directory, move the entire create-daml-app into that repo.
at the parent level directory, daml new triggers to create another daml project.
I had a lot of trouble trying to link up the dependencies properly but these sources helped:
starting two separate daml projects in one repo