diff --git a/docs/topics/exporters.rst b/docs/topics/exporters.rst
index 3c36ef002..9360ecf37 100644
--- a/docs/topics/exporters.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/exporters.rst
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ after your custom code.
 
 Example::
 
-      from scrapy.exporter import XmlItemExporter
+      from scrapy.exporters import XmlItemExporter
 
       class ProductXmlExporter(XmlItemExporter):