diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/jsonfile.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/jsonfile.py
index bd191209038..4319b88fd62 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/jsonfile.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/jsonfile.py
@@ -43,11 +43,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 '''
 
 import codecs
-
-try:
-    import simplejson as json
-except ImportError:
-    import json
+import json
 
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder, AnsibleJSONDecoder
 from ansible.plugins.cache import BaseFileCacheModule