diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/CHANGELOG.md b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/CHANGELOG.md
index 0bad17af44c..8b6931dad03 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
   `True`/`False`.
   ([#1609](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/1609))
 
+* Span tags will no longer be populated with Resource Attributes.
+  ([#1663](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/pull/1663))
+
 ## 1.0.0-rc1.1
 
 Released 2020-Nov-17
diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/ZipkinExporter.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/ZipkinExporter.cs
index 98ea5aed566..06f70c3c9eb 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/ZipkinExporter.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/ZipkinExporter.cs
@@ -108,24 +108,13 @@ internal void SetLocalEndpointFromResource(Resource resource)
             }
 
             string serviceName = null;
-            Dictionary<string, object> tags = null;
             foreach (var label in resource.Attributes)
             {
-                string key = label.Key;
-
-                switch (key)
+                if (label.Key == ResourceSemanticConventions.AttributeServiceName)
                 {
-                    case ResourceSemanticConventions.AttributeServiceName:
-                        serviceName = label.Value as string;
-                        continue;
+                    serviceName = label.Value as string;
+                    break;
                 }
-
-                if (tags == null)
-                {
-                    tags = new Dictionary<string, object>();
-                }
-
-                tags[key] = label.Value;
             }
 
             if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(serviceName))
@@ -138,7 +127,7 @@ internal void SetLocalEndpointFromResource(Resource resource)
                 ipv4,
                 ipv6,
                 port: null,
-                tags);
+                tags: null);
         }
 
         private static string ResolveHostAddress(string hostName, AddressFamily family)
diff --git a/test/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin.Tests/ZipkinExporterTests.cs b/test/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin.Tests/ZipkinExporterTests.cs
index 6c620cb4cb4..24e5bb99f6e 100644
--- a/test/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin.Tests/ZipkinExporterTests.cs
+++ b/test/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin.Tests/ZipkinExporterTests.cs
@@ -183,8 +183,6 @@ public void IntegrationTest(
                     [ResourceSemanticConventions.AttributeServiceName] = serviceName,
                     ["service.tag"] = "hello world",
                 }).Build());
-
-                resoureTags = "\"service.tag\":\"hello world\",";
             }
             else
             {