diff --git a/pkg/controlplane/apiserver/.import-restrictions b/pkg/controlplane/apiserver/.import-restrictions
deleted file mode 100644
index 180994c1dc6..00000000000
--- a/pkg/controlplane/apiserver/.import-restrictions
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-rules:
-  - selectorRegexp: k8s[.]io/kubernetes
-    allowedPrefixes:
-      - ''
-    forbiddenPrefixes:
-      # prevent pkg/ from depending on cmd/
-      #   note: pkg/kubemark overrides this
-      # - k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd # temporarily disabled until options are split and moved
-      # use sigs.k8s.io/yaml instead
-      - github.com/ghodss/yaml
-      # prevent kubernetes from opening sctp sockets (ref: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87926#discussion_r376642015)
-      - github.com/ishidawataru/sctp