diff --git a/src/tabmat/constructor.py b/src/tabmat/constructor.py
index 724ac484..cdb2000d 100644
--- a/src/tabmat/constructor.py
+++ b/src/tabmat/constructor.py
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@
 from .sparse_matrix import SparseMatrix
 from .split_matrix import SplitMatrix
 
-try:
-    import polars as pl
-except ImportError:
-    pl = None  # type: ignore
 try:
     import pandas as pd
 except ImportError: