Production At Leather And Garment Factories

A worker tends to a circular knitting machine at a garment factory in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. A free-trade agreement between China and Southeast Asia came into force on Jan. 1, consolidating a sixfold surge in economic activity over the past decade between countries representing a quarter of the world's population. The agreement expands a limited 2005 trade area between China and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, scrapping tariffs on about 90 percent of goods. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images