diff --git a/ci/build_wheel.sh b/ci/build_wheel.sh
index 60355e050..a39ebf502 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel.sh
@@ -45,14 +45,6 @@ cd "${package_dir}"
 
 python -m pip wheel . -w dist -vvv --no-deps --disable-pip-version-check
 
-# Because we built the library with the run script and manually copied the shared pybind11
-# library, the subsequent py_project.toml wheel build was as a pure Python package and results in
-# tags that incorrectly indicate it is a universal wheel. To fix this, we need to modify the wheel
-# to have CPython ABI and Python tags matching the version of Python that the Python bindings were
-# built with.
-WHEEL_PYTHON_TAG=cp$(echo ${RAPIDS_PY_VERSION} | sed 's/\.//g')
-python -m wheel tags --remove --python-tag="${WHEEL_PYTHON_TAG}" --abi-tag="${WHEEL_PYTHON_TAG}" dist/*
-
 mkdir -p final_dist
 python -m auditwheel repair -w final_dist dist/*