diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/mce-cli/requirements.txt b/metadata-ingestion/mce-cli/requirements.txt
index f7f6e2afe9..b75825b8dd 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/mce-cli/requirements.txt
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/mce-cli/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-confluent-kafka[avro]==1.1.0
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+confluent-kafka==1.1.0
+avro-python3==1.8.2