diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index 2c8614a1f14..2363826ab15 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ import dis
 import imp
 import tokenize
 import linecache
-from abc import ABCMeta
 from operator import attrgetter
 from collections import namedtuple
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d1390cd6871..665b1855070 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
+
 - Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
 
 - Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.