diff --git a/cmd/importer/main.go b/cmd/importer/main.go
index 636566b..7d78e2f 100644
--- a/cmd/importer/main.go
+++ b/cmd/importer/main.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package main
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"fmt"
+	"github.com/kris-dev-hub/globallinks/pkg/healthcheck"
 	"log"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
@@ -14,8 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/kris-dev-hub/globallinks/pkg/healthcheck"
-
 	"github.com/klauspost/compress/gzip"
 
 	"github.com/kris-dev-hub/globallinks/pkg/commoncrawl"
@@ -204,11 +203,6 @@ func importSegment(segment commoncrawl.WatSegment, dataDir commoncrawl.DataDir,
 
 	for _, watFile := range segment.WatFiles {
 
-		// sleep between WAT files to avoid common crawl transfer limitation
-		if sleepBetweenWat > 0 {
-			time.Sleep(time.Duration(sleepBetweenWat) * time.Second)
-		}
-
 		// ignore imported files
 		if watFile.Imported != nil {
 			continue
@@ -254,6 +248,11 @@ func importSegment(segment commoncrawl.WatSegment, dataDir commoncrawl.DataDir,
 			panic(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to create file: %v", err))
 		}
 
+		// sleep between WAT files to avoid common crawl transfer limitation
+		if sleepBetweenWat > 0 {
+			time.Sleep(time.Duration(sleepBetweenWat) * time.Second)
+		}
+
 		wg.Add(1)
 		// Before starting the goroutine, we insert an empty struct into the guard channel.
 		// If the channel is already full (meaning we have 'maxGoroutines' goroutines running),