diff --git a/requests/__init__.py b/requests/__init__.py
index b000557f..e3a9d2a0 100644
--- a/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/__init__.py
@@ -31,8 +31,3 @@ from .exceptions import (
     RequestException, Timeout, URLRequired,
     TooManyRedirects, HTTPError, ConnectionError
 )
-
-try:
-    from . import async
-except RuntimeError:
-    pass
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