diff --git a/pandas/io/common.py b/pandas/io/common.py
index 7151a34cd37de..c62de76286610 100644
--- a/pandas/io/common.py
+++ b/pandas/io/common.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import bz2
 import codecs
-import csv
 import gzip
 from io import BufferedIOBase, BytesIO
 import mmap
@@ -17,9 +16,7 @@
     List,
     Mapping,
     Optional,
-    TextIO,
     Tuple,
-    Type,
     Union,
 )
 from urllib.parse import (  # noqa
@@ -574,16 +571,3 @@ def next(self) -> bytes:
 
     def close(self):
         self.reader.close()
-
-
-# Keeping these class for now because it provides a necessary convenience
-# for "dropping" the "encoding" argument from our I/O arguments when
-# creating a Unicode I/O object.
-def UnicodeReader(f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8", **kwds):
-    return csv.reader(f, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
-
-
-def UnicodeWriter(
-    f: TextIO, dialect: Type[csv.Dialect] = csv.excel, encoding: str = "utf-8", **kwds
-):
-    return csv.writer(f, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/csvs.py b/pandas/io/formats/csvs.py
index c0071028a8ef4..3a91d65ab4562 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/csvs.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/csvs.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import csv as csvlib
 from io import StringIO
 import os
-from typing import Any, Dict, List
+from typing import List
 import warnings
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import notna
 
 from pandas.io.common import (
-    UnicodeWriter,
     get_compression_method,
     get_filepath_or_buffer,
     get_handle,
@@ -188,7 +187,9 @@ def save(self):
             close = True
 
         try:
-            writer_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = dict(
+            # Note: self.encoding is irrelevant here
+            self.writer = csvlib.writer(
+                f,
                 lineterminator=self.line_terminator,
                 delimiter=self.sep,
                 quoting=self.quoting,
@@ -196,10 +197,6 @@ def save(self):
                 escapechar=self.escapechar,
                 quotechar=self.quotechar,
             )
-            if self.encoding == "ascii":
-                self.writer = csvlib.writer(f, **writer_kwargs)
-            else:
-                self.writer = UnicodeWriter(f, encoding=self.encoding, **writer_kwargs)
 
             self._save()
 
diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers.py b/pandas/io/parsers.py
index cc3d2bd12ca35..37cd36a2be3bc 100755
--- a/pandas/io/parsers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers.py
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@
 
 from pandas.io.common import (
     BaseIterator,
-    UnicodeReader,
     UTF8Recoder,
     get_filepath_or_buffer,
     get_handle,
@@ -2431,23 +2430,13 @@ class MyDialect(csv.Dialect):
                 self.line_pos += 1
                 sniffed = csv.Sniffer().sniff(line)
                 dia.delimiter = sniffed.delimiter
-                if self.encoding is not None:
-                    self.buf.extend(
-                        list(
-                            UnicodeReader(
-                                StringIO(line), dialect=dia, encoding=self.encoding
-                            )
-                        )
-                    )
-                else:
-                    self.buf.extend(list(csv.reader(StringIO(line), dialect=dia)))
 
-            if self.encoding is not None:
-                reader = UnicodeReader(
-                    f, dialect=dia, encoding=self.encoding, strict=True
-                )
-            else:
-                reader = csv.reader(f, dialect=dia, strict=True)
+                # Note: self.encoding is irrelevant here
+                line_rdr = csv.reader(StringIO(line), dialect=dia)
+                self.buf.extend(list(line_rdr))
+
+            # Note: self.encoding is irrelevant here
+            reader = csv.reader(f, dialect=dia, strict=True)
 
         else: