Importing exported project templates in Visual studio does not restore packages

Question

I created an project template according to microsofts docs. The project itself requires 3 packages that I installed from Nuget. However upon importing the project/creating a new project with the template results in the packages not being found Nuget settings are set to "download missing packages" and if I hover my using statements, I only get the option to remove them, not download them. According to Package manager, the packages are restored but the compiler cannot even find for example the System namespace.