diff --git a/collections/collections/__init__.py b/collections/collections/__init__.py
index f3c7f5ef..2bcb95d9 100644
--- a/collections/collections/__init__.py
+++ b/collections/collections/__init__.py
@@ -3,3 +3,11 @@
 # CPython implementation brings in metaclasses and other bloat.
 # This is going to be just import-all for other modules in a namespace package
 from _collections import *
+try:
+    from .defaultdict import defaultdict
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+try:
+    from .deque import deque
+except ImportError:
+    pass