What do you mean by "auto-exporting"? Do you use Exporter? If so, please show us how. If not, please show us how you export the variable; and also, how you check that the variable was "indeed" exported.

Update: The following works for me. Note, though, that exporting variables is not recommended:

Local.pm:

package Local;
use warnings;
use strict;

use Exporter 'import';
our @EXPORT_OK = qw( $VAR );

our $VAR = 12;

__PACKAGE__
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script.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Local qw( $VAR );

print "$VAR\n";
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