diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 3b4624e..2f8749e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+v0.16.4 (2024-10-18)
+--------------------
+
+- Fixed a recently introduced bug that made Pandas required for the library to work.
+
 v0.16.3 (2024-10-18)
 --------------------
 
diff --git a/dwca/read.py b/dwca/read.py
index edba130..f4a152e 100644
--- a/dwca/read.py
+++ b/dwca/read.py
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@
 from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any, IO, Tuple
 from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
 
-from pandas.io.parsers import TextFileReader
-
 import dwca.vendor
 from dwca.descriptors import ArchiveDescriptor, DataFileDescriptor, shorten_term
 from dwca.exceptions import (
@@ -229,6 +227,7 @@ def pd_read(self, relative_path, **kwargs):
             raise ImportError("Pandas is missing.")
 
         from pandas import read_csv
+        from pandas.io.parsers import TextFileReader
 
         kwargs["delimiter"] = datafile_descriptor.fields_terminated_by
         kwargs["skiprows"] = datafile_descriptor.lines_to_ignore
diff --git a/dwca/version.py b/dwca/version.py
index 755df90..abd732c 100644
--- a/dwca/version.py
+++ b/dwca/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.16.3"
+__version__ = "0.16.4"