diff --git a/examples/api/README.md b/examples/api/README.md
index 45d0b7ad..d8f6f917 100644
--- a/examples/api/README.md
+++ b/examples/api/README.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ First we will import necessary libraries and create a FastAPI instance and initi
 from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
 import pandas as pd
 from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression
+from starlette.responses import Response
 
 app = FastAPI()
 ```