diff --git a/src/transformers/convert_graph_to_onnx.py b/src/transformers/convert_graph_to_onnx.py
index 736d85b0cda80f..ce4350b3b1f284 100644
--- a/src/transformers/convert_graph_to_onnx.py
+++ b/src/transformers/convert_graph_to_onnx.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ def convert_pytorch(nlp: Pipeline, opset: int, output: Path, use_external_format
     import torch
     from torch.onnx import export
 
-    from .pytorch_utils import is_torch_less_than_1_11
+    from transformers.pytorch_utils import is_torch_less_than_1_11
 
     print(f"Using framework PyTorch: {torch.__version__}")