diff --git a/encoding/csv.ts b/encoding/csv.ts
index c8c7719ca..711e27772 100644
--- a/encoding/csv.ts
+++ b/encoding/csv.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 // Ported from Go:
 // https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.12.5/src/encoding/csv/
+// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. BSD license.
+// https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE
 // Copyright 2018-2020 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
 
 import { BufReader } from "../io/bufio.ts";
@@ -9,6 +11,11 @@ import { assert } from "../testing/asserts.ts";
 
 const INVALID_RUNE = ["\r", "\n", '"'];
 
+export const ERR_BARE_QUOTE = 'bare " in non-quoted-field';
+export const ERR_QUOTE = 'extraneous or missing " in quoted-field';
+export const ERR_INVALID_DELIM = "Invalid Delimiter";
+export const ERR_FIELD_COUNT = "wrong number of fields";
+
 export class ParseError extends Error {
   StartLine: number;
   Line: number;
@@ -49,23 +56,146 @@ function chkOptions(opt: ReadOptions): void {
     (typeof opt.comment === "string" && INVALID_RUNE.includes(opt.comment)) ||
     opt.comma === opt.comment
   ) {
-    throw new Error("Invalid Delimiter");
+    throw new Error(ERR_INVALID_DELIM);
   }
 }
 
-async function read(
+async function readRecord(
   Startline: number,
   reader: BufReader,
   opt: ReadOptions = { comma: ",", trimLeadingSpace: false }
 ): Promise<string[] | Deno.EOF> {
   const tp = new TextProtoReader(reader);
-  let line: string;
-  let result: string[] = [];
   const lineIndex = Startline;
+  let line = await readLine(tp);
 
+  if (line === Deno.EOF) return Deno.EOF;
+  if (line.length === 0) {
+    return [];
+  }
+  // line starting with comment character is ignored
+  if (opt.comment && line[0] === opt.comment) {
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  assert(opt.comma != null);
+
+  let quoteError: string | null = null;
+  const quote = '"';
+  const quoteLen = quote.length;
+  const commaLen = opt.comma.length;
+  let recordBuffer = "";
+  const fieldIndexes = [] as number[];
+  parseField: for (;;) {
+    if (opt.trimLeadingSpace) {
+      line = line.trimLeft();
+    }
+
+    if (line.length === 0 || !line.startsWith(quote)) {
+      // Non-quoted string field
+      const i = line.indexOf(opt.comma);
+      let field = line;
+      if (i >= 0) {
+        field = field.substring(0, i);
+      }
+      // Check to make sure a quote does not appear in field.
+      if (!opt.lazyQuotes) {
+        const j = field.indexOf(quote);
+        if (j >= 0) {
+          quoteError = ERR_BARE_QUOTE;
+          break parseField;
+        }
+      }
+      recordBuffer += field;
+      fieldIndexes.push(recordBuffer.length);
+      if (i >= 0) {
+        line = line.substring(i + commaLen);
+        continue parseField;
+      }
+      break parseField;
+    } else {
+      // Quoted string field
+      line = line.substring(quoteLen);
+      for (;;) {
+        const i = line.indexOf(quote);
+        if (i >= 0) {
+          // Hit next quote.
+          recordBuffer += line.substring(0, i);
+          line = line.substring(i + quoteLen);
+          if (line.startsWith(quote)) {
+            // `""` sequence (append quote).
+            recordBuffer += quote;
+            line = line.substring(quoteLen);
+          } else if (line.startsWith(opt.comma)) {
+            // `","` sequence (end of field).
+            line = line.substring(commaLen);
+            fieldIndexes.push(recordBuffer.length);
+            continue parseField;
+          } else if (0 === line.length) {
+            // `"\n` sequence (end of line).
+            fieldIndexes.push(recordBuffer.length);
+            break parseField;
+          } else if (opt.lazyQuotes) {
+            // `"` sequence (bare quote).
+            recordBuffer += quote;
+          } else {
+            // `"*` sequence (invalid non-escaped quote).
+            quoteError = ERR_QUOTE;
+            break parseField;
+          }
+        } else if (line.length > 0 || !(await isEOF(tp))) {
+          // Hit end of line (copy all data so far).
+          recordBuffer += line;
+          const r = await readLine(tp);
+          if (r === Deno.EOF) {
+            if (!opt.lazyQuotes) {
+              quoteError = ERR_QUOTE;
+              break parseField;
+            }
+            fieldIndexes.push(recordBuffer.length);
+            break parseField;
+          }
+          recordBuffer += "\n"; // preserve line feed (This is because TextProtoReader removes it.)
+          line = r;
+        } else {
+          // Abrupt end of file (EOF on error).
+          if (!opt.lazyQuotes) {
+            quoteError = ERR_QUOTE;
+            break parseField;
+          }
+          fieldIndexes.push(recordBuffer.length);
+          break parseField;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  if (quoteError) {
+    throw new ParseError(Startline, lineIndex, quoteError);
+  }
+  const result = [] as string[];
+  let preIdx = 0;
+  for (const i of fieldIndexes) {
+    result.push(recordBuffer.slice(preIdx, i));
+    preIdx = i;
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+async function isEOF(tp: TextProtoReader): Promise<boolean> {
+  return (await tp.r.peek(0)) === Deno.EOF;
+}
+
+async function readLine(tp: TextProtoReader): Promise<string | Deno.EOF> {
+  let line: string;
   const r = await tp.readLine();
   if (r === Deno.EOF) return Deno.EOF;
   line = r;
+
+  // For backwards compatibility, drop trailing \r before EOF.
+  if ((await isEOF(tp)) && line.length > 0 && line[line.length - 1] === "\r") {
+    line = line.substring(0, line.length - 1);
+  }
+
   // Normalize \r\n to \n on all input lines.
   if (
     line.length >= 2 &&
@@ -76,41 +206,7 @@ async function read(
     line = line + "\n";
   }
 
-  const trimmedLine = line.trimLeft();
-  if (trimmedLine.length === 0) {
-    return [];
-  }
-
-  // line starting with comment character is ignored
-  if (opt.comment && trimmedLine[0] === opt.comment) {
-    return [];
-  }
-
-  assert(opt.comma != null);
-  result = line.split(opt.comma);
-
-  let quoteError = false;
-  result = result.map((r): string => {
-    if (opt.trimLeadingSpace) {
-      r = r.trimLeft();
-    }
-    if (r[0] === '"' && r[r.length - 1] === '"') {
-      r = r.substring(1, r.length - 1);
-    } else if (r[0] === '"') {
-      r = r.substring(1, r.length);
-    }
-
-    if (!opt.lazyQuotes) {
-      if (r[0] !== '"' && r.indexOf('"') !== -1) {
-        quoteError = true;
-      }
-    }
-    return r;
-  });
-  if (quoteError) {
-    throw new ParseError(Startline, lineIndex, 'bare " in non-quoted-field');
-  }
-  return result;
+  return line;
 }
 
 export async function readMatrix(
@@ -129,7 +225,7 @@ export async function readMatrix(
   chkOptions(opt);
 
   for (;;) {
-    const r = await read(lineIndex, reader, opt);
+    const r = await readRecord(lineIndex, reader, opt);
     if (r === Deno.EOF) break;
     lineResult = r;
     lineIndex++;
@@ -148,7 +244,7 @@ export async function readMatrix(
 
     if (lineResult.length > 0) {
       if (_nbFields && _nbFields !== lineResult.length) {
-        throw new ParseError(lineIndex, lineIndex, "wrong number of fields");
+        throw new ParseError(lineIndex, lineIndex, ERR_FIELD_COUNT);
       }
       result.push(lineResult);
     }
diff --git a/encoding/csv_test.ts b/encoding/csv_test.ts
index cb61de433..b3d4ec0c9 100644
--- a/encoding/csv_test.ts
+++ b/encoding/csv_test.ts
@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
 // Test ported from Golang
 // https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2cc15b1/src/encoding/csv/reader_test.go
+// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. BSD license.
+// https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE
+// Copyright 2018-2020 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
+
 import { assertEquals, assert } from "../testing/asserts.ts";
-import { readMatrix, parse } from "./csv.ts";
+import {
+  readMatrix,
+  parse,
+  ERR_BARE_QUOTE,
+  ERR_QUOTE,
+  ERR_INVALID_DELIM,
+  ERR_FIELD_COUNT,
+} from "./csv.ts";
 import { StringReader } from "../io/readers.ts";
 import { BufReader } from "../io/bufio.ts";
 
-const ErrInvalidDelim = "Invalid Delimiter";
-const ErrFieldCount = "wrong number of fields";
-const ErrBareQuote = 'bare " in non-quoted-field';
-
-// TODO(zekth): Activate remaining tests
 const testCases = [
   {
     Name: "Simple",
@@ -43,7 +49,6 @@ zzz,yyy,xxx`,
       ["a,a", `bbb`, "ccc"],
       ["zzz", "yyy", "xxx"],
     ],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "NoEOLTest",
@@ -62,8 +67,7 @@ zzz,yyy,xxx`,
 line","one line","three
 line
 field"`,
-    Output: [["two\nline"], ["one line"], ["three\nline\nfield"]],
-    ignore: true,
+    Output: [["two\nline", "one line", "three\nline\nfield"]],
   },
   {
     Name: "BlankLine",
@@ -129,7 +133,7 @@ field"`,
   {
     Name: "BadDoubleQuotes",
     Input: `a""b,c`,
-    Error: ErrBareQuote,
+    Error: ERR_BARE_QUOTE,
     // Error: &ParseError{StartLine: 1, Line: 1, Column: 1, Err: ErrBareQuote},
   },
   {
@@ -141,23 +145,23 @@ field"`,
   {
     Name: "BadBareQuote",
     Input: `a "word","b"`,
-    Error: ErrBareQuote,
+    Error: ERR_BARE_QUOTE,
     // &ParseError{StartLine: 1, Line: 1, Column: 2, Err: ErrBareQuote}
   },
   {
     Name: "BadTrailingQuote",
     Input: `"a word",b"`,
-    Error: ErrBareQuote,
+    Error: ERR_BARE_QUOTE,
   },
   {
     Name: "ExtraneousQuote",
     Input: `"a "word","b"`,
-    Error: ErrBareQuote,
+    Error: ERR_QUOTE,
   },
   {
     Name: "BadFieldCount",
     Input: "a,b,c\nd,e",
-    Error: ErrFieldCount,
+    Error: ERR_FIELD_COUNT,
     UseFieldsPerRecord: true,
     FieldsPerRecord: 0,
   },
@@ -167,7 +171,7 @@ field"`,
     // Error: &ParseError{StartLine: 1, Line: 1, Err: ErrFieldCount},
     UseFieldsPerRecord: true,
     FieldsPerRecord: 2,
-    Error: ErrFieldCount,
+    Error: ERR_FIELD_COUNT,
   },
   {
     Name: "FieldCount",
@@ -261,22 +265,19 @@ x,,,
   {
     Name: "StartLine1", // Issue 19019
     Input: 'a,"b\nc"d,e',
-    Error: true,
+    Error: ERR_QUOTE,
     // Error: &ParseError{StartLine: 1, Line: 2, Column: 1, Err: ErrQuote},
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "StartLine2",
     Input: 'a,b\n"d\n\n,e',
-    Error: true,
+    Error: ERR_QUOTE,
     // Error: &ParseError{StartLine: 2, Line: 5, Column: 0, Err: ErrQuote},
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "CRLFInQuotedField", // Issue 21201
     Input: 'A,"Hello\r\nHi",B\r\n',
     Output: [["A", "Hello\nHi", "B"]],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "BinaryBlobField", // Issue 19410
@@ -287,32 +288,27 @@ x,,,
     Name: "TrailingCR",
     Input: "field1,field2\r",
     Output: [["field1", "field2"]],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "QuotedTrailingCR",
     Input: '"field"\r',
-    Output: [['"field"']],
-    ignore: true,
+    Output: [["field"]],
   },
   {
     Name: "QuotedTrailingCRCR",
     Input: '"field"\r\r',
-    Error: true,
+    Error: ERR_QUOTE,
     // Error: &ParseError{StartLine: 1, Line: 1, Column: 6, Err: ErrQuote},
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "FieldCR",
     Input: "field\rfield\r",
     Output: [["field\rfield"]],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "FieldCRCR",
     Input: "field\r\rfield\r\r",
     Output: [["field\r\rfield\r"]],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "FieldCRCRLF",
@@ -328,7 +324,6 @@ x,,,
     Name: "FieldCRCRLFCRCR",
     Input: "field\r\r\n\r\rfield\r\r\n\r\r",
     Output: [["field\r"], ["\r\rfield\r"], ["\r"]],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "MultiFieldCRCRLFCRCR",
@@ -338,7 +333,6 @@ x,,,
       ["\r\rfield1", "field2\r"],
       ["\r\r", ""],
     ],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "NonASCIICommaAndComment",
@@ -374,12 +368,11 @@ x,,,
     Name: "QuotedFieldMultipleLF",
     Input: '"\n\n\n\n"',
     Output: [["\n\n\n\n"]],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "MultipleCRLF",
     Input: "\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
-    ignore: true,
+    Output: [],
   },
   /**
    * The implementation may read each line in several chunks if
@@ -392,12 +385,12 @@ x,,,
       "#ignore\n".repeat(10000) + "@".repeat(5000) + "," + "*".repeat(5000),
     Output: [["@".repeat(5000), "*".repeat(5000)]],
     Comment: "#",
-    ignore: true,
+    ignore: true, // TODO(#4521)
   },
   {
     Name: "QuoteWithTrailingCRLF",
     Input: '"foo"bar"\r\n',
-    Error: ErrBareQuote,
+    Error: ERR_QUOTE,
     // Error: &ParseError{StartLine: 1, Line: 1, Column: 4, Err: ErrQuote},
   },
   {
@@ -410,58 +403,54 @@ x,,,
     Name: "DoubleQuoteWithTrailingCRLF",
     Input: '"foo""bar"\r\n',
     Output: [[`foo"bar`]],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "EvenQuotes",
     Input: `""""""""`,
     Output: [[`"""`]],
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "OddQuotes",
     Input: `"""""""`,
-    Error: true,
+    Error: ERR_QUOTE,
     // Error:" &ParseError{StartLine: 1, Line: 1, Column: 7, Err: ErrQuote}",
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "LazyOddQuotes",
     Input: `"""""""`,
     Output: [[`"""`]],
     LazyQuotes: true,
-    ignore: true,
   },
   {
     Name: "BadComma1",
     Comma: "\n",
-    Error: ErrInvalidDelim,
+    Error: ERR_INVALID_DELIM,
   },
   {
     Name: "BadComma2",
     Comma: "\r",
-    Error: ErrInvalidDelim,
+    Error: ERR_INVALID_DELIM,
   },
   {
     Name: "BadComma3",
     Comma: '"',
-    Error: ErrInvalidDelim,
+    Error: ERR_INVALID_DELIM,
   },
   {
     Name: "BadComment1",
     Comment: "\n",
-    Error: ErrInvalidDelim,
+    Error: ERR_INVALID_DELIM,
   },
   {
     Name: "BadComment2",
     Comment: "\r",
-    Error: ErrInvalidDelim,
+    Error: ERR_INVALID_DELIM,
   },
   {
     Name: "BadCommaComment",
     Comma: "X",
     Comment: "X",
-    Error: ErrInvalidDelim,
+    Error: ERR_INVALID_DELIM,
   },
 ];
 for (const t of testCases) {