diff --git a/cli/import.rs b/cli/import.rs
index f996723f9..a339bd276 100644
--- a/cli/import.rs
+++ b/cli/import.rs
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ impl<'a> ImportFile<'a> {
 
                 for r in record.iter() {
                     values_string.push('\'');
-                    values_string.push_str(r);
+                    // The string can have a single quote which needs to be escaped
+                    values_string.push_str(&r.replace("'", "''"));
                     values_string.push_str("',");
                 }
 
diff --git a/testing/shelltests.py b/testing/shelltests.py
index 4fe43e837..0f9fc0b23 100755
--- a/testing/shelltests.py
+++ b/testing/shelltests.py
@@ -253,10 +253,10 @@ def test_import_csv(test_name: str, options: str, import_output: str, table_outp
         table_output,
     )
 
-test_import_csv('no_options', '--csv', '', '1|2.0|String1\n3|4.0|String2')
+test_import_csv('no_options', '--csv', '', '1|2.0|String\'1\n3|4.0|String2')
 test_import_csv('verbose', '--csv -v', 
                 'Added 2 rows with 0 errors using 2 lines of input' 
-                ,'1|2.0|String1\n3|4.0|String2')
+                ,'1|2.0|String\'1\n3|4.0|String2')
 test_import_csv('skip', '--csv --skip 1', '' ,'3|4.0|String2')
 
 
diff --git a/testing/test_files/test.csv b/testing/test_files/test.csv
index 34a2e6cd7..718f5e212 100644
--- a/testing/test_files/test.csv
+++ b/testing/test_files/test.csv
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-1,2.0,"String1"
+1,2.0,"String'1"
 3,4.0,"String2"
\ No newline at end of file