diff --git a/pycrfsuite/_pycrfsuite.pyx b/pycrfsuite/_pycrfsuite.pyx
index 09cc379..a75ace0 100644
--- a/pycrfsuite/_pycrfsuite.pyx
+++ b/pycrfsuite/_pycrfsuite.pyx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # cython: c_string_encoding=ascii
 # cython: profile=False
 # distutils: language=c++
-from . cimport crfsuite_api
+cimport pycrfsuite.crfsuite_api as crfsuite_api
 from libcpp.string cimport string
 
 import sys