diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spiderstate.py b/scrapy/contrib/spiderstate.py
index d2cb4193a..89f0dc38d 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/spiderstate.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/spiderstate.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ from __future__ import with_statement
 import os, cPickle as pickle
 
 from scrapy import signals
-from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured
 from scrapy.xlib.pydispatch import dispatcher
 
 class SpiderState(object):