mboy, what taxes or charges did you have to pay?
As others have stated, none… France is inside the EU!
I got an absolute steal cos someone on here was kind enough to post up a 15% extra discount code, and I was lucky that it applied to the forks I wanted that were already in the sale. Postage was only about 10 Euros too. Paid the grand total of 290 Euros for my 2010 Reba Teams with Blackbox damping and 20mm axle, posted to my door, which at the time was £260.
Cheapest place in the UK at the time was £549, even importing from the states was about £400 plus any taxes I may or may not have got stung for.
I was very lucky though, there were only 2 forks left, someone else off here got the other one. Nothing else (with the exception of a couple of Orange frames) was quite such the bargain.