diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
index 909789d204..0ec90ffac0 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -122,6 +122,16 @@
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.http-client</groupId>
+      <artifactId>google-http-client</artifactId>
+      <scope>runtime</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.http-client</groupId>
+      <artifactId>google-http-client-gson</artifactId>
+      <scope>runtime</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
       <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
@@ -262,16 +272,6 @@
       <artifactId>opencensus-impl</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.google.http-client</groupId>
-      <artifactId>google-http-client</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.google.http-client</groupId>
-      <artifactId>google-http-client-gson</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>