diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/fileio.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/fileio.py
index 115bc0ec9d0d0..6475a347f05f1 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/fileio.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/fileio.py
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ def exists(path):
     if path.startswith('gs://'):
       # pylint: disable=wrong-import-order, wrong-import-position
       from apache_beam.io import gcsio
-      return gcsio.GcsIO().exists()
+      return gcsio.GcsIO().exists(path)
     else:
       return os.path.exists(path)