diff --git a/arkindex/documents/export/dataset.sql b/arkindex/documents/export/dataset.sql
index 48d54910f083f8c3c81ea74b13b1387f23595bb9..557ba99f05df05ed0d6a620ac1ab12e06cfa1932 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/export/dataset.sql
+++ b/arkindex/documents/export/dataset.sql
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 SELECT
     dataset.id,
     dataset.name,
+    dataset.description,
     dataset.state,
     string_agg(datasetset.name, ',')
 FROM training_dataset dataset
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/export/structure.sql b/arkindex/documents/export/structure.sql
index b3eca511e3689527efa56d9c459b30eabe9c6c9f..da2bafd29225af088f5ece876c720af08f8bac1c 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/export/structure.sql
+++ b/arkindex/documents/export/structure.sql
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ CREATE TABLE metadata (
 CREATE TABLE dataset (
     id VARCHAR(37) NOT NULL,
     name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
+    description TEXT NOT NULL,
     state VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'open',
     sets TEXT NOT NULL,
     PRIMARY KEY (id)
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/management/commands/load_export.py b/arkindex/documents/management/commands/load_export.py
index fcf94b613938f592423531dba08748e324b963ec..d3240d55f18f8b3883f4b589c2eac400e7d9a319 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/management/commands/load_export.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/management/commands/load_export.py
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
             corpus=self.corpus,
             name=row["name"],
             creator=self.user,
-            description="Imported dataset",
+            description=row["description"] if "description" in row.keys() else "Imported dataset",
         )]
 
     def convert_dataset_sets(self, row):
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/tests/commands/test_load_export.py b/arkindex/documents/tests/commands/test_load_export.py
index f1fca7354850915d69a84adf1d68c36b4b619a8b..ff43bf2fe3eb22b7be8c5016e2503724d531f12f 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/tests/commands/test_load_export.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/tests/commands/test_load_export.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from arkindex.documents.models import Corpus, Element, ElementPath, EntityType,
 from arkindex.documents.tasks import corpus_delete
 from arkindex.images.models import Image, ImageServer
 from arkindex.process.models import ProcessMode, Repository, Worker, WorkerRun, WorkerType, WorkerVersion
-from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureTestCase
+from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureTestCase, force_constraints_immediate
 from arkindex.training.models import Dataset, DatasetElement
 
 BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).absolute().parent
@@ -211,7 +211,8 @@ class TestLoadExport(FixtureTestCase):
         ImageServer.objects.all().delete()
         WorkerVersion.objects.filter(id=reco_version.id).delete()
 
-        call_command("load_export", db_path, "--email", self.user.email, "--corpus-name", "My corpus")
+        with force_constraints_immediate():
+            call_command("load_export", db_path, "--email", self.user.email, "--corpus-name", "My corpus")
 
         # Call dumpdata command after the import
         _, dump_path_after = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".json")
@@ -247,7 +248,8 @@ class TestLoadExport(FixtureTestCase):
         db.commit()
         db.close()
 
-        call_command("load_export", temp_file, "--email", self.user.email, "--corpus-name", "My corpus")
+        with force_constraints_immediate():
+            call_command("load_export", temp_file, "--email", self.user.email, "--corpus-name", "My corpus")
 
         corpus = Corpus.objects.get(name="My corpus")
         self.assertEqual(corpus.types.all().count(), 0)
@@ -307,7 +309,8 @@ class TestLoadExport(FixtureTestCase):
         # meaning the test can only fail.
         ElementPath.objects.filter(element__corpus=self.corpus).delete()
 
-        call_command("load_export", db_path, "--email", self.user.email, "--corpus-name", "My corpus")
+        with force_constraints_immediate():
+            call_command("load_export", db_path, "--email", self.user.email, "--corpus-name", "My corpus")
 
         corpus = Corpus.objects.get(name="My corpus")
         self.assertEqual(corpus.types.all().count(), 6)