diff --git a/tests/data_utils.py b/tests/data_utils.py
index 182fd4e0cd..9334a236f0 100644
--- a/tests/data_utils.py
+++ b/tests/data_utils.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 2022 MosaicML LLM Foundry authors
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-import json
 import os
 import pathlib
 import shutil