diff --git a/qiskit/circuit/quantumcircuitdata.py b/qiskit/circuit/quantumcircuitdata.py
index d4baafce12c7..7041df867a08 100644
--- a/qiskit/circuit/quantumcircuitdata.py
+++ b/qiskit/circuit/quantumcircuitdata.py
@@ -15,16 +15,13 @@
 
 from collections.abc import MutableSequence
 
-import qiskit._accelerate.circuit
+from qiskit._accelerate.circuit import CircuitInstruction
 
 from .exceptions import CircuitError
 from .instruction import Instruction
 from .operation import Operation
 
 
-CircuitInstruction = qiskit._accelerate.circuit.CircuitInstruction
-
-
 class QuantumCircuitData(MutableSequence):
     """A wrapper class for the purposes of validating modifications to
     QuantumCircuit.data while maintaining the interface of a python list."""