diff --git a/ibis/backends/__init__.py b/ibis/backends/__init__.py
index 0740850b6f8da..4ac18ab95d87a 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/__init__.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import re
 import sys
 import urllib.parse
-import urllib.request
 import weakref
 from io import BytesIO
 from pathlib import Path
diff --git a/ibis/backends/tests/test_register.py b/ibis/backends/tests/test_register.py
index 59ac3658462f9..3fbd47005e781 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/tests/test_register.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/tests/test_register.py
@@ -472,6 +472,12 @@ def test_read_parquet_url_request(con, url, data_dir, in_table_name, monkeypatch
     pytest.importorskip("pyarrow.parquet")
     fsspec = pytest.importorskip("fsspec")
 
+    if con.name in ("trino", "impala"):
+        # TODO: remove after trino and impala have efficient insertion
+        pytest.skip(
+            "Both Impala and Trino lack efficient data insertion methods from Python."
+        )
+
     fname = Path("functional_alltypes.parquet")
     fname = Path(data_dir) / "parquet" / fname.name
     mock_calls = []