diff --git a/components/engine/hack/make/.detect-daemon-osarch b/components/engine/hack/make/.detect-daemon-osarch
index 7376c1d855..c472710d17 100644
--- a/components/engine/hack/make/.detect-daemon-osarch
+++ b/components/engine/hack/make/.detect-daemon-osarch
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ esac
 export PACKAGE_ARCH
 
 DOCKERFILE='Dockerfile'
-TEST_IMAGE_NAMESPACE=
 case "$PACKAGE_ARCH" in
 	amd64)
 		case "${DOCKER_ENGINE_GOOS:-$DOCKER_CLIENT_GOOS}" in
@@ -64,9 +63,6 @@ case "$PACKAGE_ARCH" in
 		;;
 	*)
 		DOCKERFILE="Dockerfile.$PACKAGE_ARCH"
-		if [ "$PACKAGE_ARCH" != "aarch64" ]; then
-			TEST_IMAGE_NAMESPACE="$PACKAGE_ARCH"
-		fi
 		;;
 esac
-export DOCKERFILE TEST_IMAGE_NAMESPACE
+export DOCKERFILE
diff --git a/components/engine/hack/make/.integration-test-helpers b/components/engine/hack/make/.integration-test-helpers
index abd1d0f305..3b1326dee0 100644
--- a/components/engine/hack/make/.integration-test-helpers
+++ b/components/engine/hack/make/.integration-test-helpers
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ test_env() {
 			HOME="$ABS_DEST/fake-HOME" \
 			PATH="$PATH" \
 			TEMP="$TEMP" \
-			TEST_IMAGE_NAMESPACE="$TEST_IMAGE_NAMESPACE" \
 			TEST_CLIENT_BINARY="$TEST_CLIENT_BINARY" \
 			"$@"
 	)
diff --git a/components/engine/integration-cli/fixtures/load/frozen.go b/components/engine/integration-cli/fixtures/load/frozen.go
index 4bec323b51..7b91fecd93 100644
--- a/components/engine/integration-cli/fixtures/load/frozen.go
+++ b/components/engine/integration-cli/fixtures/load/frozen.go
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ const frozenImgDir = "/docker-frozen-images"
 // images were passed in. If the images need to be downloaded, then it will respect
 // the passed in images
 func FrozenImagesLinux(client client.APIClient, images ...string) error {
-	imgNS := os.Getenv("TEST_IMAGE_NAMESPACE")
 	var loadImages []struct{ srcName, destName string }
 	for _, img := range images {
 		if !imageExists(client, img) {
@@ -38,9 +37,6 @@ func FrozenImagesLinux(client client.APIClient, images ...string) error {
 			if img == "hello-world:frozen" {
 				srcName = "hello-world:latest"
 			}
-			if imgNS != "" {
-				srcName = imgNS + "/" + srcName
-			}
 			loadImages = append(loadImages, struct{ srcName, destName string }{
 				srcName:  srcName,
 				destName: img,