diff --git a/pkg/sql/importer/import_stmt_test.go b/pkg/sql/importer/import_stmt_test.go
index a1670c14361e..2e6c4a22d6f8 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/importer/import_stmt_test.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/importer/import_stmt_test.go
@@ -3774,6 +3774,10 @@ func TestUniqueUUID(t *testing.T) {
 	connDB := tc.ServerConn(0)
 	sqlDB := sqlutils.MakeSQLRunner(connDB)
 
+	// Disable elastic CPU control to avoid timeout — elastic CPU throttling
+	// can push this test past the 15m timeout.
+	sqlDB.Exec(t, `SET CLUSTER SETTING bulkio.import.elastic_control.enabled = false`)
+
 	dataSize := parallelImporterReaderBatchSize * 100
 
 	sqlDB.Exec(t, fmt.Sprintf(`CREATE TABLE data AS SELECT * FROM generate_series(1, %d);`, dataSize))