diff --git a/requests/exceptions.py b/requests/exceptions.py
index 0658e7ec..9684d9e5 100644
--- a/requests/exceptions.py
+++ b/requests/exceptions.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ requests.exceptions
 
 This module contains the set of Requests' exceptions.
 """
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
 
 
 class RequestException(IOError):