diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4db4681d0..15ecf0a9f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -912,7 +912,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "predicates",
  "prettytable-rs",
  "taskchampion",
- "uuid",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/cli/Cargo.toml b/cli/Cargo.toml
index c5bf41c85..cf26fad96 100644
--- a/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = "~2.33.0"
-uuid = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 taskchampion = { path = "../taskchampion" }
 failure = "0.1.8"
 prettytable-rs = "0.8.0"
diff --git a/cli/src/cmd/add.rs b/cli/src/cmd/add.rs
index c34e82453..a04ad8658 100644
--- a/cli/src/cmd/add.rs
+++ b/cli/src/cmd/add.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use clap::{App, Arg, ArgMatches, SubCommand as ClapSubCommand};
 use failure::{format_err, Fallible};
-use taskchampion::Status;
-use uuid::Uuid;
+use taskchampion::{Status, Uuid};
 
 use crate::cmd::{ArgMatchResult, CommandInvocation};
 
diff --git a/cli/src/cmd/shared.rs b/cli/src/cmd/shared.rs
index eb472ab23..570095fb1 100644
--- a/cli/src/cmd/shared.rs
+++ b/cli/src/cmd/shared.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use clap::Arg;
 use failure::{format_err, Fallible};
-use taskchampion::{Replica, Task};
-use uuid::Uuid;
+use taskchampion::{Replica, Task, Uuid};
 
 pub(super) fn task_arg<'a>() -> Arg<'a, 'a> {
     Arg::with_name("task")
diff --git a/taskchampion/src/lib.rs b/taskchampion/src/lib.rs
index d5d1d13be..471437a4f 100644
--- a/taskchampion/src/lib.rs
+++ b/taskchampion/src/lib.rs
@@ -34,5 +34,8 @@ pub use task::Priority;
 pub use task::Status;
 pub use task::{Task, TaskMut};
 
+/// Re-exported type from the `uuid` crate, for ease of compatibility for consumers of this crate.
+pub use uuid::Uuid;
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub(crate) mod testing;