diff --git a/arraycontext/impl/pyopencl.py b/arraycontext/impl/pyopencl.py
index ea30e73aedecdf54ba64ebf58bc1134176cc39f6..d11abd10c9d6e084625c088b28a9186903f5e4e8 100644
--- a/arraycontext/impl/pyopencl.py
+++ b/arraycontext/impl/pyopencl.py
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ from arraycontext.fake_numpy import \
         BaseFakeNumpyNamespace, BaseFakeNumpyLinalgNamespace
 from arraycontext.container.traversal import (rec_multimap_array_container,
                                               rec_map_array_container)
-from arraycontext.container import serialize_container, is_array_container
 from arraycontext.context import ArrayContext