diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_metrics/instrument.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_metrics/instrument.py
index 15f240b698e..7ad885afc61 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_metrics/instrument.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_metrics/instrument.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # all instances. Implementations of these classes must not make any change to
 # this default dictionary in __init__.
 
-from opentelemetry.metrics.instrument import (
+from opentelemetry._metrics.instrument import (
     Counter,
     Histogram,
     ObservableCounter,
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     ObservableUpDownCounter,
     UpDownCounter,
 )
-from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.aggregation import (
+from opentelemetry.sdk._metrics.aggregation import (
     ExplicitBucketHistogramAggregation,
     LastValueAggregation,
     SumAggregation,
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/metrics/test_aggregation.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/metrics/test_aggregation.py
index 29a4dde5326..e4d36f203cc 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/metrics/test_aggregation.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/tests/metrics/test_aggregation.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_CUMULATIVE,
     AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_DELTA,
 )
-from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.aggregation import (
+from opentelemetry.sdk._metrics.aggregation import (
     ExplicitBucketHistogramAggregation,
     LastValueAggregation,
     NoneAggregation,