In the following example, the {@inheritDoc} produces no text description. If the exception class is made fully qualified (java.io.EOFException) to match the @throws in the interface, then the proper description is produced. The fact that one class uses an import statement and the other doesn't shouldn't cause matching up the @throws to fail.

import java.io.IOException;

public interface Iface {
    /**
     * Iface doc.
     *
     * @throws java.io.EOFException if eof occurs
     * @throws IOException if I/O exception occurs
     */
    void foo() throws IOException;
}

import java.io.*;

public class Foo implements Iface {
    /**
     * Foo doc.
     *
     * @throws EOFException {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public void foo() throws IOException {
    }
}