diff --git a/cli/common.go b/cli/common.go
index b52776e0..13a877b5 100644
--- a/cli/common.go
+++ b/cli/common.go
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 package cli
 
 import (
-	"os"
-
-	"github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
 )
 
@@ -187,23 +184,3 @@ var ContextFlag = &cli.StringFlag{
 	Aliases:     []string{"c"},
 	Destination: &Context,
 }
-
-func createTable(columns []string) *tablewriter.Table {
-	table := tablewriter.NewWriter(os.Stdout)
-	table.SetHeader(columns)
-
-	// Settings to create very bare tab padded table
-	table.SetAutoWrapText(false)
-	table.SetAutoFormatHeaders(true)
-	table.SetHeaderAlignment(tablewriter.ALIGN_LEFT)
-	table.SetAlignment(tablewriter.ALIGN_LEFT)
-	table.SetCenterSeparator("")
-	table.SetColumnSeparator("")
-	table.SetRowSeparator("")
-	table.SetHeaderLine(false)
-	table.SetBorder(false)
-	table.SetTablePadding("\t") // pad with tabs
-	table.SetNoWhiteSpace(true)
-	table.SetColWidth(1)
-	return table
-}
diff --git a/cli/formatter.go b/cli/formatter.go
index 32497c79..4a2d0941 100644
--- a/cli/formatter.go
+++ b/cli/formatter.go
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@ package cli
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"os"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/docker/cli/cli/command/formatter"
 	"github.com/docker/go-units"
+	"github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter"
 )
 
 func shortenID(str string) string {
@@ -28,3 +30,23 @@ func humanDuration(timestamp int64) string {
 	now := time.Now().UTC()
 	return units.HumanDuration(now.Sub(date)) + " ago"
 }
+
+func createTable(columns []string) *tablewriter.Table {
+	table := tablewriter.NewWriter(os.Stdout)
+	table.SetHeader(columns)
+
+	// Settings to create very bare tab padded table
+	table.SetAutoWrapText(false)
+	table.SetAutoFormatHeaders(true)
+	table.SetHeaderAlignment(tablewriter.ALIGN_LEFT)
+	table.SetAlignment(tablewriter.ALIGN_LEFT)
+	table.SetCenterSeparator("")
+	table.SetColumnSeparator("")
+	table.SetRowSeparator("")
+	table.SetHeaderLine(false)
+	table.SetBorder(false)
+	table.SetTablePadding("\t") // pad with tabs
+	table.SetNoWhiteSpace(true)
+	table.SetColWidth(1)
+	return table
+}