diff --git a/addons/web/controllers/main.py b/addons/web/controllers/main.py
index 74285b1f444..12c39d71a06 100644
--- a/addons/web/controllers/main.py
+++ b/addons/web/controllers/main.py
@@ -1199,7 +1199,11 @@ class Export(View):
             fields = {}
         else:
             fields = self.fields_get(req, model)
-        fields['.id'] = fields.pop('id') if 'id' in fields else {'string': 'ID'}
+
+        if import_compat:
+            fields.pop('id', None)
+        else:
+            fields['.id'] = fields.pop('id', {'string': 'ID'})
 
         fields_sequence = sorted(fields.iteritems(),
             key=lambda field: field[1].get('string', ''))
@@ -1249,7 +1253,6 @@ class Export(View):
     def fields_info(self, req, model, export_fields):
         info = {}
         fields = self.fields_get(req, model)
-        fields['.id'] = fields.pop('id') if 'id' in fields else {'string': 'ID'}
 
         # To make fields retrieval more efficient, fetch all sub-fields of a
         # given field at the same time. Because the order in the export list is