Chinese companies that profit from the opioid epidemic ravaging the US should face economic sanctions to stop them from flooding America with the deadly drugs, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday.

“For years, Chinese labs have been cooking up formulas of death,” said Schumer in announcing his proposed Fentanyl Sanctions Act.

The bill would slap overseas manufacturers of synthetic-opioid ingredients with sanctions barring them from doing business in the US, Schumer said.

It would also increase funding to law-enforcement and intelligence officers fighting the opioid scourge, and direct President Trump to establish “an international opioid control regime” to pressure countries that produce the substance, the Democrat said. Roughly 48,000 Americans died of fentanyl overdoses between June 2017 and 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fentanyl was behind the fatal overdoses of 842 New Yorkers in 2017, more than any other drug, city stats show.