diff --git a/scrapy/item.py b/scrapy/item.py
index 265fcb8a5..c0434c576 100644
--- a/scrapy/item.py
+++ b/scrapy/item.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Scrapy Item
 See documentation in docs/topics/item.rst
 """
 
-from copy import deepcopy
 from pprint import pformat
 from UserDict import DictMixin