diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/transforms/babel-plugin-system-import/__tests__/babel-plugin-system-import-test.js b/packager/react-packager/src/transforms/babel-plugin-system-import/__tests__/babel-plugin-system-import-test.js
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+/**
+ * Copyright 2004-present Facebook. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * @emails oncall+jsinfra
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+jest.autoMockOff();
+jest.mock('../../../BundlesLayout');
+
+const babel = require('babel-core');
+const BundlesLayout = require('../../../BundlesLayout');
+
+const testData = {
+  isolated: {
+    input:  'System.import("moduleA");',
+    output: 'loadBundles(["bundle.0"]);'
+  },
+  single: {
+    input:  'System.import("moduleA").then(function (bundleA) {});',
+    output: 'loadBundles(["bundle.0"]).then(function (bundleA) {});'
+  },
+  multiple: {
+    input: [
+      'Promise.all([',
+        'System.import("moduleA"), System.import("moduleB"),',
+      ']).then(function (bundlesA, bundlesB) {});',
+    ].join('\n'),
+    output: [
+      'Promise.all([',
+        'loadBundles(["bundle.0"]), loadBundles(["bundle.1"])',
+      ']).then(function (bundlesA, bundlesB) {});',
+    ].join(''),
+  },
+};
+
+describe('System.import', () => {
+  let layout = new BundlesLayout();
+  BundlesLayout.prototype.getBundleIDForModule.mockImpl(module => {
+    switch (module) {
+      case 'moduleA': return 'bundle.0';
+      case 'moduleB': return 'bundle.1';
+    }
+  });
+
+  function transform(source) {
+    return babel.transform(source, {
+      plugins: [require('../')],
+      blacklist: ['strict'],
+      extra: { bundlesLayout: layout },
+    }).code;
+  }
+
+  function test(data) {
+    // transform and remove new lines
+    expect(transform(data.input).replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,'')).toEqual(data.output);
+  }
+
+  it('should transform isolated `System.import`', () => {
+    test(testData.isolated);
+  });
+
+  it('should transform single `System.import`', () => {
+    test(testData.single);
+  });
+
+  it('should transform multiple `System.import`s', () => {
+    test(testData.multiple);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/transforms/babel-plugin-system-import/index.js b/packager/react-packager/src/transforms/babel-plugin-system-import/index.js
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+ /**
+  * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
+  * All rights reserved.
+  *
+  * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+  * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+  *
+  */
+/*jslint node: true */
+'use strict';
+
+var t = require('babel-core').types;
+
+/**
+ * Transforms asynchronous module importing into a function call
+ * that includes which bundle needs to be loaded
+ *
+ * Transforms:
+ *
+ *  System.import('moduleA')
+ *
+ * to:
+ *
+ *  loadBundles('bundleA')
+ */
+module.exports = function systemImportTransform(babel) {
+  return new babel.Transformer('system-import', {
+    CallExpression: function(node, parent, scope, state) {
+      if (!isAppropriateSystemImportCall(node, parent)) {
+        return node;
+      }
+
+      var bundlesLayout = state.opts.extra.bundlesLayout;
+      var bundleID = bundlesLayout.getBundleIDForModule(
+        node.arguments[0].value
+      );
+
+      var bundles = bundleID.split('.');
+      bundles.splice(0, 1);
+      bundles = bundles.map(function(id) {
+        return t.literal('bundle.' + id);
+      });
+
+      return t.callExpression(
+        t.identifier('loadBundles'),
+        [t.arrayExpression(bundles)]
+      );
+    },
+
+    metadata: {
+      group: 'fb'
+    }
+  });
+};
+
+function isAppropriateSystemImportCall(node) {
+  return (
+    node.callee.type === 'MemberExpression' &&
+    node.callee.object.name === 'System' &&
+    node.callee.property.name === 'import' &&
+    node.arguments.length === 1 &&
+    node.arguments[0].type === 'Literal'
+  );
+}