diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/tsconfig.json b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/tsconfig.json
index b3ff4e84578..64ff561763b 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/tsconfig.json
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/tsconfig.json
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@
     },
     {
       "path": "../opentelemetry-exporter-trace-otlp-http"
-    },
-    {
-      "path": "../opentelemetry-sdk-metrics-base"
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.esm.json b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.esm.json
index 484461f470a..063825713f5 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.esm.json
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.esm.json
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
     },
     {
       "path": "../opentelemetry-exporter-trace-otlp-http/tsconfig.esm.json"
-    },
-    {
-      "path": "../opentelemetry-sdk-metrics-base/tsconfig.esm.json"
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.json b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.json
index 13dc2e7744d..d9595b8a987 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.json
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/tsconfig.json
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
     },
     {
       "path": "../opentelemetry-exporter-trace-otlp-http"
-    },
-    {
-      "path": "../opentelemetry-sdk-metrics-base"
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/tsconfig.json b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/tsconfig.json
index 35c3f6d9c73..50c20b23e2e 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/tsconfig.json
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/tsconfig.json
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@
     },
     {
       "path": "../opentelemetry-exporter-trace-otlp-proto"
-    },
-    {
-      "path": "../opentelemetry-sdk-metrics-base"
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/tsconfig.json b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/tsconfig.json
index 3c062d3feb2..948abef3ceb 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/tsconfig.json
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/tsconfig.json
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@
   "references": [
     {
       "path": "../opentelemetry-api-metrics"
-    },
-    {
-      "path": "../opentelemetry-sdk-metrics-base"
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/tsconfig.json b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/tsconfig.json
index 36c71e90d8d..b0e33797f42 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/tsconfig.json
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/tsconfig.json
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
     },
     {
       "path": "../opentelemetry-instrumentation"
-    },
-    {
-      "path": "../opentelemetry-sdk-metrics-base"
     }
   ]
 }