diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/export/BatchSpanProcessor.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/export/BatchSpanProcessor.ts
index 5813c302faf..b2e308b4427 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/export/BatchSpanProcessor.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/export/BatchSpanProcessor.ts
@@ -109,8 +109,10 @@ export class BatchSpanProcessor implements SpanProcessor {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       // prevent downstream exporter calls from generating spans
       context.with(suppressInstrumentation(context.active()), () => {
-        this._exporter.export(this._finishedSpans, result => {
-          this._finishedSpans = [];
+        // Reset the finished spans buffer here because the next invocations of the _flush method
+        // could pass the same finished spans to the exporter if the buffer is cleared
+        // outside of the execution of this callback.
+        this._exporter.export(this._finishedSpans.splice(0), result => {
           if (result.code === ExportResultCode.SUCCESS) {
             resolve();
           } else {
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/test/export/BatchSpanProcessor.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/test/export/BatchSpanProcessor.test.ts
index 014f5edfa27..10ca9e0800c 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/test/export/BatchSpanProcessor.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/test/export/BatchSpanProcessor.test.ts
@@ -181,6 +181,23 @@ describe('BatchSpanProcessor', () => {
 
       clock.restore();
     });
+
+    it('should export each sampled span exactly once with buffer size reached multiple times', async () => {
+      const processor = new BatchSpanProcessor(exporter, defaultBufferConfig);
+      const totalSpans = defaultBufferConfig.bufferSize * 2;
+      for (let i = 0; i <= totalSpans; i++) {
+        const span = createSampledSpan(`${name}_${i}`);
+
+        processor.onEnd(span);
+      }
+      // Now we should start seeing the spans in exporter
+      const span = createSampledSpan(`${name}_last`);
+      processor.onEnd(span);
+      assert.strictEqual(exporter.getFinishedSpans().length, totalSpans + 2);
+
+      await processor.shutdown();
+      assert.strictEqual(exporter.getFinishedSpans().length, 0);
+    });
   });
 
   describe('force flush', () => {