diff --git a/pandas/_libs/sparse.pyx b/pandas/_libs/sparse.pyx
index 2993114a668bb..d852711d3b707 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/sparse.pyx
+++ b/pandas/_libs/sparse.pyx
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-import operator
-import sys
-
 import cython
 
 import numpy as np
diff --git a/pandas/_libs/tslib.pyx b/pandas/_libs/tslib.pyx
index 16fea0615f199..9012ebefe0975 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/tslib.pyx
+++ b/pandas/_libs/tslib.pyx
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ import numpy as np
 cnp.import_array()
 
 import pytz
-from dateutil.tz import tzlocal, tzutc as dateutil_utc
-
 
 from util cimport (is_integer_object, is_float_object, is_string_object,
                    is_datetime64_object)