27Thirdly, as regards the condition laid down in Article 13 of Regulation No 1430/79, that there must be no deception or obvious negligence on the part of the person concerned, the applicant submits that it incontrovertibly acted neither negligently nor fraudulently and that, moreover, it is settled law that only commercial traders whose activities essentially consist of import-export operations are under an obligation to ascertain, by reading the Official Journal, the Community duty applicable to the operations in question (see Case 161/88 Binder v Hauptzollamt Bad Reichenhall [1989] ECR 2415, paragraph 22). In the applicant's submission, since it has only occasionally engaged in import transactions and must therefore be regarded as a trader inexperienced in that sector, it could not reasonably be expected to be more knowledgeable than the customs authorities, still less in a position to review their actions.
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