diff --git a/docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst b/docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst
index 7922ee26c..1f3554e9f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ already processed. Let say that our items have an unique id, but our spider
 returns multiples items with the same id::
 
 
-    from scrapy import signals
     from scrapy.exceptions import DropItem
 
     class DuplicatesPipeline(object):