>France does not allow the import of any product that exceeds their encryption level so
many products that employ 128bit encryption are not allowed to be exported to France. However, I cannot see how that pertains to VFP8?

You are right. It doesn't. VFP does not encrypt anything.
In order to do 128bit encryption you would have to use the Windows Crypto API.
So what, France is not allowing imports of any Windows version then? That doesn't make sense!

Must be something else.