diff --git a/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/arxiv_paper_tool/arxiv_paper_tool.py b/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/arxiv_paper_tool/arxiv_paper_tool.py
index 56f0e4828..bb3bc25ca 100644
--- a/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/arxiv_paper_tool/arxiv_paper_tool.py
+++ b/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/arxiv_paper_tool/arxiv_paper_tool.py
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ from typing import ClassVar
 import urllib.error
 import urllib.parse
 import urllib.request
+from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
 
 from crewai.tools import BaseTool, EnvVar
-import defusedxml.ElementTree as ET
+from defusedxml.ElementTree import fromstring
 from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field
 
 
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ class ArxivPaperTool(BaseTool):
             logger.error(f"Error fetching data from Arxiv: {e}")
             raise
 
-        root = ET.fromstring(data)
+        root = fromstring(data)
         papers = []
 
         for entry in root.findall(self.ATOM_NAMESPACE + "entry"):
@@ -121,11 +122,11 @@ class ArxivPaperTool(BaseTool):
         return papers
 
     @staticmethod
-    def _get_element_text(entry: ET.Element, element_name: str) -> str | None:
+    def _get_element_text(entry: Element, element_name: str) -> str | None:
         elem = entry.find(f"{ArxivPaperTool.ATOM_NAMESPACE}{element_name}")
         return elem.text.strip() if elem is not None and elem.text else None
 
-    def _extract_pdf_url(self, entry: ET.Element) -> str | None:
+    def _extract_pdf_url(self, entry: Element) -> str | None:
         for link in entry.findall(self.ATOM_NAMESPACE + "link"):
             if link.attrib.get("title", "").lower() == "pdf":
                 return link.attrib.get("href")
diff --git a/lib/crewai-tools/tests/rag/test_xml_loader.py b/lib/crewai-tools/tests/rag/test_xml_loader.py
index 1576e84b4..5e2e75426 100644
--- a/lib/crewai-tools/tests/rag/test_xml_loader.py
+++ b/lib/crewai-tools/tests/rag/test_xml_loader.py
@@ -196,5 +196,4 @@ class TestXMLLoader:
         """Verify that ArxivPaperTool imports from defusedxml, not xml.etree.ElementTree."""
         import crewai_tools.tools.arxiv_paper_tool.arxiv_paper_tool as arxiv_module
 
-        ET = arxiv_module.ET
-        assert "defusedxml" in ET.__name__
+        assert "defusedxml" in arxiv_module.fromstring.__module__
diff --git a/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/arxiv_paper_tool_test.py b/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/arxiv_paper_tool_test.py
index f9134b421..36f8210f6 100644
--- a/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/arxiv_paper_tool_test.py
+++ b/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/arxiv_paper_tool_test.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 import urllib.error
-import defusedxml.ElementTree as ET
+from defusedxml.ElementTree import ParseError
 
 from crewai_tools import ArxivPaperTool
 import pytest
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def test_invalid_xml_response(mock_urlopen, tool):
     mock_response.status = 200
     mock_urlopen.return_value.__enter__.return_value = mock_response
 
-    with pytest.raises(ET.ParseError):
+    with pytest.raises(ParseError):
         tool.fetch_arxiv_data("quantum", 1)