diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpproxy.py b/scrapy/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpproxy.py
index ef6753b5a..9d6b4d9f5 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpproxy.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_httpproxy.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from scrapy.contrib.downloadermiddleware.httpproxy import HttpProxyMiddleware
 from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured
 from scrapy.http import Response, Request
 from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
-from scrapy.conf import settings
 
 spider = BaseSpider('foo')