diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/correlation-context/correlation-context.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/correlation-context/correlation-context.ts
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+/*!
+ * Copyright 2020, OpenTelemetry Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { CorrelationContext } from '@opentelemetry/api';
+import { Context } from '@opentelemetry/context-base';
+
+const CORRELATION_CONTEXT = Context.createKey(
+  'OpenTelemetry Distributed Contexts Key'
+);
+
+export function getCorrelationContext(
+  context: Context
+): CorrelationContext | undefined {
+  return (
+    (context.getValue(CORRELATION_CONTEXT) as CorrelationContext) || undefined
+  );
+}
+
+export function setCorrelationContext(
+  context: Context,
+  correlationContext: CorrelationContext
+): Context {
+  return context.setValue(CORRELATION_CONTEXT, correlationContext);
+}
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/correlation-context/propagation/HttpCorrelationContext.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-core/src/correlation-context/propagation/HttpCorrelationContext.ts
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+/*!
+ * Copyright 2020, OpenTelemetry Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import {
+  Context,
+  CorrelationContext,
+  GetterFunction,
+  HttpTextPropagator,
+  SetterFunction,
+} from '@opentelemetry/api';
+
+import {
+  getCorrelationContext,
+  setCorrelationContext,
+} from '../correlation-context';
+
+export const CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER = 'otcorrelationcontext';
+const KEY_PAIR_SEPARATOR = '=';
+const PROPERTIES_SEPARATOR = ';';
+const ITEMS_SEPARATOR = ',';
+
+/* W3C Constrains*/
+
+export const MAX_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS = 180;
+export const MAX_PER_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS = 4096;
+export const MAX_TOTAL_LENGTH = 8192;
+
+/**
+ * Propagates {@link CorrelationContext} through Context format propagation.
+ *
+ * Based on the Correlation Context specification:
+ * https://w3c.github.io/correlation-context/
+ */
+export class HttpCorrelationContext implements HttpTextPropagator {
+  inject(context: Context, carrier: unknown, setter: SetterFunction) {
+    const distContext = getCorrelationContext(context);
+    if (distContext) {
+      const all = Object.keys(distContext);
+      const values = all
+        .map(
+          (key: string) =>
+            `${encodeURIComponent(key)}=${encodeURIComponent(
+              distContext[key].value
+            )}`
+        )
+        .filter((pair: string) => {
+          return pair.length <= MAX_PER_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS;
+        })
+        .slice(0, MAX_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS);
+      const headerValue = values.reduce((hValue: String, current: String) => {
+        const value = `${hValue}${
+          hValue != '' ? ITEMS_SEPARATOR : ''
+        }${current}`;
+        return value.length > MAX_TOTAL_LENGTH ? hValue : value;
+      }, '');
+      if (headerValue.length > 0) {
+        setter(carrier, CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER, headerValue);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  extract(context: Context, carrier: unknown, getter: GetterFunction): Context {
+    const headerValue: string = getter(
+      carrier,
+      CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER
+    ) as string;
+    if (!headerValue) return context;
+    const distributedContext: CorrelationContext = {};
+    if (headerValue.length > 0) {
+      const pairs = headerValue.split(ITEMS_SEPARATOR);
+      if (pairs.length == 1) return context;
+      pairs.forEach(entry => {
+        const valueProps = entry.split(PROPERTIES_SEPARATOR);
+        if (valueProps.length > 0) {
+          const keyPairPart = valueProps.shift();
+          if (keyPairPart) {
+            const keyPair = keyPairPart.split(KEY_PAIR_SEPARATOR);
+            if (keyPair.length > 1) {
+              const key = decodeURIComponent(keyPair[0].trim());
+              let value = decodeURIComponent(keyPair[1].trim());
+              if (valueProps.length > 0) {
+                value =
+                  value +
+                  PROPERTIES_SEPARATOR +
+                  valueProps.join(PROPERTIES_SEPARATOR);
+              }
+              distributedContext[key] = { value };
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      });
+    }
+    return setCorrelationContext(context, distributedContext);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-core/test/correlation-context/HttpCorrelationContext.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-core/test/correlation-context/HttpCorrelationContext.test.ts
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+/*!
+ * Copyright 2019, OpenTelemetry Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import {
+  defaultGetter,
+  defaultSetter,
+  CorrelationContext,
+} from '@opentelemetry/api';
+import { Context } from '@opentelemetry/context-base';
+import * as assert from 'assert';
+
+import {
+  getCorrelationContext,
+  setCorrelationContext,
+} from '../../src/correlation-context/correlation-context';
+
+import {
+  HttpCorrelationContext,
+  CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER,
+  MAX_PER_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS,
+} from '../../src/correlation-context/propagation/HttpCorrelationContext';
+
+describe('HttpCorrelationContext', () => {
+  const httpTraceContext = new HttpCorrelationContext();
+
+  let carrier: { [key: string]: unknown };
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    carrier = {};
+  });
+
+  describe('.inject()', () => {
+    it('should set traceparent header', () => {
+      const correlationContext: CorrelationContext = {
+        key1: { value: 'd4cda95b652f4a1592b449d5929fda1b' },
+        key3: { value: 'c88815a7-0fa9-4d95-a1f1-cdccce3c5c2a' },
+        'with/slash': { value: 'with spaces' },
+      };
+
+      httpTraceContext.inject(
+        setCorrelationContext(Context.ROOT_CONTEXT, correlationContext),
+        carrier,
+        defaultSetter
+      );
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(
+        carrier[CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER],
+        'key1=d4cda95b652f4a1592b449d5929fda1b,key3=c88815a7-0fa9-4d95-a1f1-cdccce3c5c2a,with%2Fslash=with%20spaces'
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('should skip long key-value pairs', () => {
+      const correlationContext: CorrelationContext = {
+        key1: { value: 'd4cda95b' },
+        key3: { value: 'c88815a7' },
+      };
+
+      let value = '';
+      // Generate long value 2*MAX_PER_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS
+      for (let i = 0; i < MAX_PER_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS; ++i) {
+        value += '1a';
+      }
+      correlationContext['longPair'] = { value };
+
+      httpTraceContext.inject(
+        setCorrelationContext(Context.ROOT_CONTEXT, correlationContext),
+        carrier,
+        defaultSetter
+      );
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(
+        carrier[CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER],
+        'key1=d4cda95b,key3=c88815a7'
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('should skip all keys that surpassed the max limit of the header', () => {
+      const correlationContext: CorrelationContext = {};
+
+      const zeroPad = (num: number, places: number) =>
+        String(num).padStart(places, '0');
+
+      // key=value with same size , 1024 => 8 keys
+      for (let i = 0; i < 9; ++i) {
+        const index = zeroPad(i, 510);
+        correlationContext[`k${index}`] = { value: `${index}` };
+      }
+
+      // Build expected
+      let expected = '';
+      for (let i = 0; i < 8; ++i) {
+        const index = zeroPad(i, 510);
+        expected += `k${index}=${index},`;
+      }
+      expected = expected.slice(0, -1);
+
+      httpTraceContext.inject(
+        setCorrelationContext(Context.ROOT_CONTEXT, correlationContext),
+        carrier,
+        defaultSetter
+      );
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(carrier[CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER], expected);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('.extract()', () => {
+    it('should extract context of a sampled span from carrier', () => {
+      carrier[CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER] = 'key1=d4cda95b,key3=c88815a7';
+      const extractedCorrelationContext = getCorrelationContext(
+        httpTraceContext.extract(Context.ROOT_CONTEXT, carrier, defaultGetter)
+      );
+
+      const expected: CorrelationContext = {
+        key1: { value: 'd4cda95b' },
+        key3: { value: 'c88815a7' },
+      };
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(extractedCorrelationContext, expected);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('returns null if header is missing', () => {
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(
+      getCorrelationContext(
+        httpTraceContext.extract(Context.ROOT_CONTEXT, carrier, defaultGetter)
+      ),
+      undefined
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('returns keys with their properties', () => {
+    carrier[CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER] =
+      'key1=d4cda95b,key3=c88815a7;prop1=value1';
+    const expected: CorrelationContext = {
+      key1: { value: 'd4cda95b' },
+      key3: { value: 'c88815a7;prop1=value1' },
+    };
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(
+      getCorrelationContext(
+        httpTraceContext.extract(Context.ROOT_CONTEXT, carrier, defaultGetter)
+      ),
+      expected
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('should gracefully handle an invalid header', () => {
+    const testCases: Record<string, string> = {
+      invalidNoKeyValuePair: '289371298nekjh2939299283jbk2b',
+      invalidDoubleEqual: 'key1==value;key2=value2',
+      invalidWrongKeyValueFormat: 'key1:value;key2=value2',
+      invalidDoubleSemicolon: 'key1:value;;key2=value2',
+    };
+    Object.getOwnPropertyNames(testCases).forEach(testCase => {
+      carrier[CORRELATION_CONTEXT_HEADER] = testCases[testCase];
+
+      const extractedSpanContext = getCorrelationContext(
+        httpTraceContext.extract(Context.ROOT_CONTEXT, carrier, defaultGetter)
+      );
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(extractedSpanContext, undefined, testCase);
+    });
+  });
+});