diff --git a/libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/embeddings/base.py b/libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/embeddings/base.py
index 826f3563ad..67ce54c044 100644
--- a/libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/embeddings/base.py
+++ b/libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/embeddings/base.py
@@ -517,7 +517,6 @@ class OpenAIEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
         _chunk_size = chunk_size or self.chunk_size
         _iter, tokens, indices = self._tokenize(texts, _chunk_size)
         batched_embeddings: list[list[float]] = []
-        _chunk_size = chunk_size or self.chunk_size
         for i in range(0, len(tokens), _chunk_size):
             response = await self.async_client.create(
                 input=tokens[i : i + _chunk_size], **self._invocation_params