diff --git a/Lib/test/test_importlib/fixtures.py b/Lib/test/test_importlib/fixtures.py
index 2e55d14b9aa..d71f2644066 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_importlib/fixtures.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_importlib/fixtures.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import pathlib
 import tempfile
 import textwrap
 import contextlib
+import unittest
 
 
 @contextlib.contextmanager
@@ -220,6 +221,9 @@ class FileBuilder:
         return test.support.FS_NONASCII or \
             self.skip("File system does not support non-ascii.")
 
+    def skip(self, reason):
+        raise unittest.SkipTest(reason)
+
 
 def DALS(str):
     "Dedent and left-strip"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-02-21-11-11-53.bpo-43288.LfTvL-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-02-21-11-11-53.bpo-43288.LfTvL-.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8463540ae8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-02-21-11-11-53.bpo-43288.LfTvL-.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix test_importlib to correctly skip Unicode file tests if the fileystem
+does not support them.