In this article, the relationship between Birkhoff-James orthogonality of elementary tensors in certain tensor product spaces with the Birkhoff-James orthogonality of individual elements in their respective spaces is studied. Mathematics subject classification (2020): 46J10, 46A32, 46M05, 46L06. Keywords and phrases: Birkhoff-James orthogonality, cross norm, injective tensor product, minimal tensor product of C * -algebras, strong Birkhoff-James orthogonality.