diff --git a/monasca_notification/common/utils.py b/monasca_notification/common/utils.py
index e1475e9..0393b39 100644
--- a/monasca_notification/common/utils.py
+++ b/monasca_notification/common/utils.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-import simport
+from monasca_common.simport import simport
 
 
 def get_db_repo(config):
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ad4cd56..bd617e1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ monasca-statsd
 requests
 PyYAML
 six
-simport>=0.2.dev16
 monasca-common