diff --git a/scrapy/utils/curl.py b/scrapy/utils/curl.py
index 790c26b1a..f5dbbd64e 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/curl.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/curl.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import argparse
-import re
 import warnings
 from http.cookies import SimpleCookie
 from shlex import split