diff --git a/opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace/src/opentelemetry/exporter/cloud_trace/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace/src/opentelemetry/exporter/cloud_trace/__init__.py
index 6b837b91..75670433 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace/src/opentelemetry/exporter/cloud_trace/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-trace/src/opentelemetry/exporter/cloud_trace/__init__.py
@@ -135,11 +135,11 @@
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-MAX_NUM_LINKS = 128
-MAX_NUM_EVENTS = 32
-MAX_EVENT_ATTRS = 4
-MAX_LINK_ATTRS = 32
-MAX_SPAN_ATTRS = 32
+MAX_NUM_LINKS = int(environ.get("CLOUD_MAX_NUM_LINKS", 128))
+MAX_NUM_EVENTS = int(environ.get("CLOUD_EVENT_COUNT_LIMIT", 32))
+MAX_EVENT_ATTRS = int(environ.get("CLOUD_EVENT_ATTR_LIMIT", 4))
+MAX_LINK_ATTRS = int(environ.get("CLOUD_LINK_LIMIT", 32))
+MAX_SPAN_ATTRS = int(environ.get("CLOUD_SPAN_ATTR_LIMIT", 32))
 MAX_ATTR_KEY_BYTES = 128
 MAX_ATTR_VAL_BYTES = 16 * 1024  # 16 kilobytes