diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3195fdb9..1a29a85f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ def getLongDescription():
     except Exception as exc:
         print('pypandoc package is not installed: the markdown '
               'README.md convertion to rst failed: ' + str(exc), file=sys.stderr)
-        import io
         # pandoc is not installed, fallback to using raw contents
         with io.open('README.md', encoding='utf-8') as f:
             long_description = f.read()