diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery/pyproject.toml
index fcd6dbd14..4d519d366 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ instruments = [
 test = [
   "opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery[instruments]",
   "opentelemetry-test-utils == 0.38b0.dev",
-  "importlib-metadata==4.13.0",
   "pytest",
 ]