diff --git a/src/parser/plugins/typescript.ts b/src/parser/plugins/typescript.ts
index 504e6750..d49f12f9 100644
--- a/src/parser/plugins/typescript.ts
+++ b/src/parser/plugins/typescript.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ import {
   eatContextual,
   expect,
   expectContextual,
-  hasFollowingLineBreak,
   hasPrecedingLineBreak,
   isContextual,
   isLineTerminator,
@@ -1039,9 +1038,9 @@ function tsParseDeclaration(contextualKeyword: ContextualKeyword, isBeforeToken:
 
 function tsCheckLineTerminator(isBeforeToken: boolean): boolean {
   if (isBeforeToken) {
-    if (hasFollowingLineBreak()) {
-      return false;
-    }
+    // Babel checks hasFollowingLineBreak here and returns false, but this
+    // doesn't actually come up, e.g. `export interface` can never be on its own
+    // line in valid code.
     next();
     return true;
   } else {
diff --git a/src/parser/traverser/util.ts b/src/parser/traverser/util.ts
index 5a72acae..2d481da1 100644
--- a/src/parser/traverser/util.ts
+++ b/src/parser/traverser/util.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import {eat, finishToken, lookaheadTypeAndKeyword, match, nextTokenStart} from "../tokenizer/index";
+import {eat, finishToken, lookaheadTypeAndKeyword, match} from "../tokenizer/index";
 import type {ContextualKeyword} from "../tokenizer/keywords";
 import {formatTokenType, TokenType, TokenType as tt} from "../tokenizer/types";
 import {charCodes} from "../util/charcodes";
@@ -50,22 +50,6 @@ export function hasPrecedingLineBreak(): boolean {
   return false;
 }
 
-export function hasFollowingLineBreak(): boolean {
-  const nextStart = nextTokenStart();
-  for (let i = state.end; i < nextStart; i++) {
-    const code = input.charCodeAt(i);
-    if (
-      code === charCodes.lineFeed ||
-      code === charCodes.carriageReturn ||
-      code === 0x2028 ||
-      code === 0x2029
-    ) {
-      return true;
-    }
-  }
-  return false;
-}
-
 export function isLineTerminator(): boolean {
   return eat(tt.semi) || canInsertSemicolon();
 }