diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 683aae1..44fef6c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Imports:
     dplyr,
     lifecycle,
     rlang,
+    sf,
     stringi,
     stringr,
     tibble,
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ Imports:
 Suggests: 
     covr,
     readr,
-    sf,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0)
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-duplicates.R b/tests/testthat/test-duplicates.R
index a398490..a435eb4 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-duplicates.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-duplicates.R
@@ -119,8 +119,6 @@ test_that("preserves groups", {
 })
 
 test_that("preserves single active geometry column called geometry", {
-  skip_if_not_installed("sf")
-
   data <- tibble::tibble(
     X = c(1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4),
     Y = c(11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15),
@@ -142,8 +140,6 @@ test_that("preserves single active geometry column called geometry", {
 })
 
 test_that("preserves single active geometry column called map", {
-  skip_if_not_installed("sf")
-
   data <- tibble::tibble(
     X = c(1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4),
     Y = c(11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15),
@@ -165,8 +161,6 @@ test_that("preserves single active geometry column called map", {
 })
 
 test_that("deals with one active geometry column and one inactive geometry column", {
-  skip_if_not_installed("sf")
-
   data <- tibble::tibble(
     X = c(1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4),
     Y = c(11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15),