diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py
index cf59e3e4c4934..5ed64e3eb0958 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 
 from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
 
-from pandas.compat import HAS_PYARROW
-
 from pandas import (
     DataFrame,
     date_range,
@@ -170,9 +168,7 @@ def test_excel_options(fsspectest):
     assert fsspectest.test[0] == "read"
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(
-    using_string_dtype() and HAS_PYARROW, reason="TODO(infer_string) fastparquet"
-)
+@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string) fastparquet")
 def test_to_parquet_new_file(cleared_fs, df1):
     """Regression test for writing to a not-yet-existent GCS Parquet file."""
     pytest.importorskip("fastparquet")
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py
index 9fc0f6eb47766..c7671bfb513aa 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_gcs.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
+from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
+
 from pandas.compat.pyarrow import pa_version_under17p0
 
 from pandas import (
@@ -194,6 +196,7 @@ def test_to_csv_compression_encoding_gcs(
     tm.assert_frame_equal(df, read_df)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string) fastparquet")
 def test_to_parquet_gcs_new_file(monkeypatch, tmpdir):
     """Regression test for writing to a not-yet-existent GCS Parquet file."""
     pytest.importorskip("fastparquet")
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
index 277d618cf4bd3..87f9b0108402c 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
@@ -1351,7 +1351,9 @@ def test_empty_dataframe(self, fp):
     def test_timezone_aware_index(self, fp, timezone_aware_date_list, request):
         import fastparquet
 
-        if Version(fastparquet.__version__) < Version("2024.11.0"):
+        if Version(fastparquet.__version__) > Version("2022.12") and Version(
+            fastparquet.__version__
+        ) < Version("2024.11.0"):
             request.applymarker(
                 pytest.mark.xfail(
                     reason=(