Terraform import resource within nested directories - amazon-web-services

Question

I've created a VPC peering connection in terraform with a new VPC created in Terraform and an existing one that was created in the AWS console.
I need to be able to import the existing VPC's route table so I'm able to add a new route referencing the vpc_peering_connection_id. However, i'm running into different errors trying to import and would happily take some guidance here.
This is the command I'm running in the cli while being in the root directory of the project-
terraform import aws_route_table.main rtb-12345
this is what I get back-
Error: resource address "aws_route_table.main" does not exist in the configuration.
Before importing this resource, please create its configuration in the root module. For example:
resource "aws_route_table" "main" {
# (resource arguments)
}
It's a pretty large project but this is the basic project structure-
-root directory
-aws
-main.tf
-route_table
-main.tf
-main.tf
I do have the configuration the error is asking for in the route_table folder main.tf file as:
resource "aws_route_table" "main" {
vpc_id = data.aws_vpc.default.id
}
I am also referencing the aws folder in the root directory > main.tf file
module "aws" {
source = "./aws"
}
and then referencing the route_table folder in the aws directory > main.tf file
module "route_table" {
source = "./route_table"
}
I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong here and how exactly to import the route table successfully. I would appreciate any help here, thanks!