Truly awesome. Thank you! For those interested, this is what my (working) code now looks like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
BEGIN {
        package jim;
        require Exporter;
        our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
        our $bar = 'foo';
        our @EXPORT_OK = qw($bar);
}
package main;
use strict;
BEGIN {
        import jim qw/$bar/;
}

print "our bar $::bar\n";
print "pkg ".__PACKAGE__." - bar: $bar\n";
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