diff --git a/torchTextClassifiers/tokenizers/__init__.py b/torchTextClassifiers/tokenizers/__init__.py
index ecba309..f126af1 100644
--- a/torchTextClassifiers/tokenizers/__init__.py
+++ b/torchTextClassifiers/tokenizers/__init__.py
@@ -7,4 +7,6 @@
 )
 from .base import TokenizerOutput as TokenizerOutput
 from .ngram import NGramTokenizer as NGramTokenizer
-from .WordPiece import WordPieceTokenizer as WordPieceTokenizer
+
+if HAS_HF:
+    from .WordPiece import WordPieceTokenizer as WordPieceTokenizer