diff --git a/litellm/caching/caching_handler.py b/litellm/caching/caching_handler.py
index beeb15aa62..9526c4a2f3 100644
--- a/litellm/caching/caching_handler.py
+++ b/litellm/caching/caching_handler.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ In each method it will call the appropriate method from caching.py
 import asyncio
 import datetime
 import inspect
-import threading
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,