diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/row_coder.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/row_coder.py
index 077da8ed5164..815dcd0cd740 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/row_coder.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/row_coder.py
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@
 
 # pytype: skip-file
 
-from google.protobuf import json_format
-
 from apache_beam.coders import typecoders
 from apache_beam.coders.coder_impl import LogicalTypeCoderImpl
 from apache_beam.coders.coder_impl import RowCoderImpl
@@ -87,13 +85,6 @@ def as_deterministic_coder(self, step_label, error_message=None):
   def to_type_hint(self):
     return self._type_hint
 
-  def as_cloud_object(self, coders_context=None):
-    value = super().as_cloud_object(coders_context)
-
-    value['schema'] = json_format.MessageToJson(self.schema).encode('utf-8')
-
-    return value
-
   def __hash__(self):
     return hash(self.schema.SerializeToString())
 
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/row_coder_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/row_coder_test.py
index 43ce0403b01d..7b4b76950cb6 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/row_coder_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders/row_coder_test.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 from itertools import chain
 
 import numpy as np
-from google.protobuf import json_format
 
 import apache_beam as beam
 from apache_beam.coders import RowCoder
@@ -374,16 +373,6 @@ def test_row_coder_fail_early_bad_schema(self):
     self.assertRaisesRegex(
         ValueError, "type_with_no_typeinfo", lambda: RowCoder(schema_proto))
 
-  def test_row_coder_cloud_object_schema(self):
-    schema_proto = schema_pb2.Schema()
-    schema_proto_json = json_format.MessageToJson(schema_proto).encode('utf-8')
-
-    coder = RowCoder(schema_proto)
-
-    cloud_object = coder.as_cloud_object()
-
-    self.assertEqual(schema_proto_json, cloud_object['schema'])
-
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.INFO)